Author: Alex Brick

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,…

By Alex Brick – There’s been a dominant narrative surrounding gender dysphoria in youth: that medical transition is not just helpful, but necessary — sometimes even framed as life-saving. But when we actually look at long-term data, that claim starts to look a lot less certain. A large-scale Finnish study tracking adolescents over more than two decades found that youth with gender dysphoria continued to have “significantly higher psychiatric morbidity” even after receiving transition counsel and treatments. “What we’re seeing is that there’s an even greater need for individuals who have undergone these medical interventions for psychiatric services,” interprets the…

By Alex Brick – He was wildly successful, a lawyer with a great career and “life was getting better every day,” so when a friend challenged his worldview with the Gospel, Mike Minot got offended. “I was shocked that he would even make these kinds of challenges,” says Minot, who lives in Colorado Springs. Nevertheless, he undertook the challenge, passed by the library and got some books on science and a Bible. The first challenge to his material worldview was the fine-tuning of the Solar System. “I learned from elementary school that the planets orbit around the sun, but I…