Author: Alex Brick

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,…

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…