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Vol. 33, No. 16
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Responding to ‘the unimaginable’

Sexual Abuse | When a trusted individual sins in a way that can ruin dozens of young lives, Christian groups and communities need to respond quickly. Here’s one case study of ongoing recovery

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Papered over

Higher Education | Biblical truth-telling at college newspapers can sometimes conflict with the way administrators want to portray the school. Here’s a case study of how Liberty University handled the tension last spring

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Equal opportunity players

Homeschooling | Many U.S. homeschoolers want to participate in public school sports, but some states have resisted them

Onize Ohikere
Far away from home

Sexual Abuse | A sex and financial abuse case in Nigeria raises questions of accountability for U.S. groups funding overseas ministries

Facing waves

Culture | Early August profiles in courage and cowardice

NPR from a Christian Worldview: Each weekday morning, enjoy daily radio news, interviews, commentary, and original features reported from the field.

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Culture Friday, and Alpha

John Stonestreet discusses the new lawsuit filed against Masterpiece Cakeshop, Megan Basham reviews the latest movie about man's best friend, and Kristen Flavin reports on the passing of the Queen of Soul. Plus: Maria Baer pays a visit to the Fountain of Youth.

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Insightful interviews with popular musicians, Christian thought leaders, makers of movies and television, respected authors, and key political leaders.

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A conversation with Ken Boa

This week, Warren Smith talks with author and speaker Ken Boa about how to read a movie.

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Disrupted drivers

New York | A controversial new law in New York caps the number of Uber drivers

Musk wants to take Tesla private

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday he wants to buy up company stock and remove it from public trading.

Pot in the bottle

Drug Abuse | Big Alcohol is adding a new ingredient—marijuana—to its moneymaking brew

Apple becomes first public company valued at $1 trillion

Apple became the world’s first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion on Thursday.

NBA cuts deal to share data with casino giant MGM Resorts

The NBA and WNBA will now share official data with MGM Resorts International, officials announced Tuesday, becoming the first major U.S.

Legalized sports betting gears up for NFL season

Two Atlantic City, N.J., casinos owned by Caesars Entertainment will start taking sports bets this week, while another two Ceasars operations in Mi

Facebook shares lose $119 billion in value

After Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s admission that the company’s second-quarter growth was slower than expected, its shares plummeted 19 perce

Qualcomm deal victim of U.S.-China trade tensions

San Diego–based Qualcomm, the world’s biggest smartphone chipmaker, on Wednesday dropped its $44 billion bid to buy Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconduct

Markets slide, then recover after Trump’s latest tariff salvo

U.S.

Responding to ‘the unimaginable’

Sexual Abuse | When a trusted individual sins in a way that can ruin dozens of young lives, Christian groups and communities need to respond quickly. Here’s one case study of ongoing recovery

Equal opportunity players

Homeschooling | Many U.S. homeschoolers want to participate in public school sports, but some states have resisted them

Training Americans to work

Education | Trump touts a technical education funding bill amid push for apprenticeships and vocational courses

Capitalizing on classical education

Education | Growth in the classical model has created the need for a new set of educational support structures—including standardized tests

Transgender rights trump privacy rights in public schools

Religious Liberty | Two federal courts uphold school policies allowing transgender students to use the facilities of their choice

Censorship education

Higher Education | In Spain, a university professor warns of growing Chinese pressure on academia

Parents’ choice

Education | New survey shows moms and dads want more from school than the three R’s

A dangerous fig leaf

Education | ‘Restorative justice’ approaches to school discipline reduces punishments but enables behavior problems

DEW is DOA

Education | The merging of the Education and Labor departments hits a predictable congressional roadblock

Far away from home

Sexual Abuse | A sex and financial abuse case in Nigeria raises questions of accountability for U.S. groups funding overseas ministries

Masterpiece Cakeshop back in court

The Colorado commission that violated Jack Phillips’ religious liberty by trying to force him to make cakes for same-sex marriages is after the bak

Root rot

Culture | It matters what soil you sit in

Grand jury report lists more than 300 ‘predator priests’ in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court released Tuesday a grand jury report on sexual abuse that allegedly occurred in six of the state’s eight dioceses ov

An evening with Dennis Prager

Religion | A Jew and a Christian muse about goodness, loving God, and bacon

Willow Creek guts leadership in wake of Hybels scandal

The entire board of Willow Creek Community Church and its remaining lead pastor, Heather Larson, announced at a church meeting Wednesday night they

Catholic diocese names accused sex abusers

A Pennsylvania Catholic Church diocese on Wednesday named 71 priests and other members of the church accused of child sex abuse.

Pope Francis changes Catholic teaching on the death penalty

Pope Francis in a new policy published Thursday changed the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching on the death penalty, saying it is always “inadmi

Dictatorial ideologies

Culture | Hyper-sexualism and hyper-Islamism impact cultures and courtrooms an ocean apart 

Death wishes

Medicine | Severely ill patients are more than collections of usable organs

One park, 24 hours, 76 drug overdoses

A spate of drug overdoses broke out Wednesday morning in and around a New Haven, Conn., park, where emergency workers treated 76 people through ear

Facing waves

Culture | Early August profiles in courage and cowardice

Houston man gets death for ‘honor killings’

A Houston jury Tuesday sentenced to death a Jordanian Muslim immigrant convicted of two honor killings.

Nebraska completes first fentanyl execution

Nebraska on Tuesday carried out its first execution since 1997 and the nation’s first lethal injection with a drug combination including the powerf

D.C. keeps peace during white supremacist march

Demonstrators turned out in the nation’s capital on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville,

Tumult and tears

Life | From an abortion revolt in Argentina to grieving at Willow Creek Community Church in Illinois, here’s a weekend Whirled news roundup

Starvation, secrecy, and militancy

Family | Questions abound about a New Mexico desert compound where a boy was found dead

Puerto Rican government owns up to Maria death toll

The Puerto Rican government conceded Thursday that the devastation associated with Hurricane Maria killed more than 1,400

Accused terrorist gained refugee status

The FBI arrested a man in Sacramento, Calif., who, before he came to the United States as a refugee, allegedly committed acts of terror as an Islam

Italy blames highway company for bridge collapse

The Italian government accused a highway company of putting financial interests before safety standards after a bridge collapsed in Genoa, killing

ISIS attack on Afghan high schoolers kills 34

A suicide bomber killed at least 34 young people Wednesday in Afghanistan, many of them high school students.

Xinjiang, land of freedom?

China | Against mounting evidence, China denies the systematic detention of Uighur minorities

Brunson remains the focus of U.S.-Turkey feud

International | The NATO ally retaliates with tariffs while a Turkish court refuses to free the American pastor

Turkey retaliates with increased tariffs on U.S. goods

Turkey increased tariffs Wednesday on some U.S. imports in a retaliatory move amid an ongoing dispute with its NATO ally.

Death toll rises from collapsed bridge in Italy

Rescue workers continued to search for survivors Wednesday after a highway bridge collapse Tuesday in Italy resulted in the death of at least

Student protests point to deeper problems in Bangladesh

International | Traffic safety is but one grievance on the minds of demonstrators and activists

Lawyer makes another appeal for Brunson’s release

An attorney representing Andrew Brunson has appealed again to a Turkish court to release the American pastor from house arrest and lift his travel

Ex-CIA officials condemn Trump’s treatment of Brennan

Former CIA Director John Brennan and a group of former intelligence officials accused President Donald Trump of attacking free speech by revoking B

Trump cuts off Brennan’s security clearance

President Donald Trump is revoking the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan, the White House said Wednesday.

West Virginia impeaches its Supreme Court

State lawmakers in West Virginia voted this week to impeach all four remaining state Supreme Court justices.

Trump ally cements win in Kansas gubernatorial primary

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach secured the Republican nomination for governor when his opponent, incumbent Gov.

Transgender candidate wins Vermont primary

Democrats in Vermont chose the nation’s first openly transgender major party nominee for a statewide office Tuesday as four states held primaries t

Races to watch in Tuesday’s primaries

Voters in four states—Connecticut, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Vermont—head to the polls for primary elections Tuesday.

Manafort lawyers rest case without calling witnesses

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s defense rested its case Tuesday without calling any witnesses.

Trump campaign takes legal action against former White House aide

President Donald Trump’s campaign organization filed an arbitration action Tuesday against former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, claimi

Trump approves bill to fund military, raise soldier pay

President Donald Trump signed a $716 billion dollar defense bill Monday to fund the military through 2019.