Author: Alex Brick

By Alex Brick – A woman who detransitioned reached a settlement in May after suing the mental health providers who approved her for a double mastectomy after only two consultations over Zoom that lasted an hour or less each. “It’s difficult because now I’m the most mentally healthy and most mentally stable I’ve been in my entire life, but I now no longer have my breasts,” says Camille Kiefel, 36. “And it is difficult because there’s little reminders like, I’ll be looking in a mirror after taking a shower and those ugly scars are still there. Dresses don’t fit me…

By Alex Brick — From 2013 to 2016, European radical Muslims dreamed of traveling (hijra) to fight the wars of jihad and achieve prominence and riches or die with a surefire entry into Jannah (paradise). To set up a caliphate, they went to Syria. Now, they’re heading to Mozambique. In March and April, six young French nationals (some were minors) were convicting in trails of planing to travel to northern Mozambique and join Islamic State–Mozambique (IS-M). On Telegram, they called themselves who “Team Musul.” They weren’t even Mozambicans. IS-M is capturing the imagination of would-be Muslim warriors with its devastating…

By Alex Brick — In Iran, Islam is losing, and Christianity is not winning. Atheism/agnosticism/no religion is winning. According to GAMAAN’s 2020 survey, Iranians self-identify: The disillusion with Islam became patent in January when protesters burned down mosques (due to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp’s fusion of fanatical religion and government policy). But even before January, of the nations 75,000 mosques, roughly two-thirds (about 50,000) had closed, said in 2023 Mohammad Haj Abolghassem Doulabi, a senior Iranian cleric and presidential adviser. Low attendance was a factor. Even though Christians are “not winning,” they are declaring victory, in part because Christianity…

By Alex Brick — As a cop, Dale Sutherland busted cartel members. As a pastor, he got them saved. “I have been able to lead to Christ a few of the guys we’ve arrested over the years as well,” he says. “I used to lock people up, and now I set them free.” For 29 years, Dale Sutherland had two jobs. By day, he was a youth pastor. At night, he was an undercover narcotics officer in Washington D.C. He was leading people to jail and to Jesus. To fund his way through Washington Bible College, Sutherland worked as a…

Hundreds of people came to Christ at what’s been described as the largest Christian gathering in Belarus history. Franklin Graham ministered in front 15,000 people filled the Chizhovka Arena in Minsk on Saturday night for the Festival of Hope May 16-17. Alexandra from Minsk was one of those to receive Jesus. She said she struggled with anxiety. Irina, who had never committed to Christ despite growing up in a Christian family, also was among the new converts. “Nothing has been done like this in Belarus in modern history,” Graham says. With a evangelical Christian population of only 2%, Belarus hasn’t…

By Alex Brick — After he didn’t feel anything on pilgrimage to Mecca, John Ghanim renounced Islam, but he did so secretly because his country, Yemen, actually enforces the Qur’an’s demand that apostates be punished by the death penalty “When I start to go around the black stone, I didn’t feel any spiritual inside of me, I didn’t feel any connection with Allah,” he says. “So I have that realization if there is a Creator this is not from him, this is human made. I decided not to be a Muslim.” Ghanim’s story exposes the harsh religious realities of Yemen.…

By Alex Brick — After a recent huge spike, the numbers of people identifying as transgender or non-binary has dropped sharply in the last few years, recent surveys have found. The percentage of trans-identified students has effectively halved in just two years, the Centre of Heterodox Social Science. The precipitous drop coincided with wider discussions in the public sphere in 2024 about the irreversibility of life-altering surgeries on children. “What the studies show is that all of this comes down to a trend that is quickly beginning to go out of fashion,” says Chloe Cole, who got a double mastectomy…

By Alex Brick and Caleb Campos — Scotland — the hollow center of the crater that is post-Christian Europe — is starting to see signs of revival. The Church of Scotland reported doubling “affirmations of faith” last year compared to 2021. At a mere 820 people, that’s no avalanche — and certainly not enough to offset deaths in the historic “kirk.” More charismatic churches report increased attendance at prayer gatherings, large youth worship events, more adult baptisms and professions of faith and new church plants — all forerunners to statistical revival. “What really stood out to me was how welcoming…

After being arrested a second time in November for street-preaching, a 58-year-old Bristol pastor has been cleared of charges of “inciting religious hatred” after commenting about Islam and transgender ideology. “This is a win for free speech, but I never should have been arrested, treated like a criminal, and investigated for months for peacefully sharing my faith in the public square,” says Dia Moodley, who has pastored Spirit of Life Reformed Baptist Church for more than a decade. In an earlier incident in March 2025, Moodley was assaulted by Muslim men who bristled at his street preaching. When police arrived,…

By Alex Brick — A self-described scientific monk, Dr. Michael Guillén was in the basement of Cornell University doing science 20 hours a day. With a PhD in physics, math and astronomy, he was a proud atheist who trusted science, not some unseen God. Then he looked at dark matter. It was not seen. Next came dark energy. Again unseen. They are conjectured indirectly based on their effects. As he pondered, his hypothesis of trusting only the seen unraveled. He wondered if his early dismissal of faith in God had been premature. “My beloved science, the god of my life,…