Author: Caleb Campos

By Caleb Campos — To Martin Luther’s Christian Germany, it’s been one secularizing smackdown after another: Higher Criticism, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hitler, communist East Germany and then the hardest slam of all — prosperity. Germany became desolate wilderness uninhabitable by faith. But don’t count Germany out. Just when you thought church closures, declining membership, retiring clerics augured an irreversible slide, Jesus moved, bringing the beginnings of renewal out of the ashes of atheism. That’s why Chris Goldswain, pastor of Every Nation Church Berlin, can tell of a youth who went on a weekend retreat, got saved and then baptized…

By Caleb Campos — A Portland man – released on bail thanks to a leftist group springing suspects from jail – strangled and stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend in front of their two children. “The Portland Freedom Fund, thinking it knew better than law enforcement professionals, decided to bail him out,” senior prosecutor Melissa Marrero said at his sentencing hearing Tuesday. “It cost her her life.” The Portland Freedom Fund was a Leftist project to help poor defendants who, it alleged, were discriminated against because of their inability to make bail. After Racheal Abraham’s death, the Fund apparently has shut…

By Caleb Campos — Poonjo Meghwar borrowed money to pay a hospital bill 23 years ago, agreeing to pay off the debt by working in the lender’s brickyard in Pakistan. Being illiterate, he “signed” with his thumbprint. Today, Poonjo, his mother, wife and son are still paying off the loan. For a crushing quota of 1,500 bricks a day, they get paid $3, half of which is used supposedly to make payments on the loan. The interest on loan is a mysterious calculation, unregulated by the government, making them essentially permanent bond servants. “I don’t remember life before the brickyard,”…

By Caleb Campos — In the water at a beach, Buddhist Alice Tran was struck by lightning. Her boyfriend and little sister moved to rescue her. “They noticed me face down in the water come over to me and pulled me out and they realized that I had been put in cardiac arrest,” Alice says. ”Some good Samaritans came and they started performing CPR” Alice Tran came from a family of devout Buddhists, and they would regularly go to temples to offer sacrifices, as well as in their house where they had shrines. She was born and raised in California…

By Caleb Campos — He brought the world Brave Heart, Pearl Harbor, Hacksaw Ridge, We Were Soldiers, Heaven Is for Real and Secretariat. Now screenwriter Randall Wallace is bringing “the Mount Everest of all stories,” The Resurrection of the Christ, which just ended filming in Italy. “Common people, these disciples, fishermen, tax collectors, prostitutes, tavern owners followed this man Jesus and believed in him,” Wallace says. Then “he’s gone and they’re terrified. Three days later it doesn’t matter what you do to them, they will not stop saying they’ve seen him alive.” Scheduled for debut in two parts, first on…

By Caleb Campos – He’s short, with a noticeable stoop, with diminutive hands and missing fingers. But mobility impairment doesn’t stop Erickson Mugo from driving – or from preaching. “I pray earnestly to God that throughout my ministry, I will always be a bridge to others toward blessings,” says the coordinator for the Anglican Diocese of Mount Kenya South – Differently Abled Department. “At all times, we should endeavor not to be barriers to other people’s blessings, but to be enablers.” Disability should not limit your calling or service, Mugo says, even if you live in Africa where challenges for…

By Caleb Campos – Behind the prank videos that got him 5M followers on IG and hundreds of thousands of dollars, Boonk Gang was hurting. “I had so much trauma and brokenness on the inside that the world didn’t know about,” he says. “That outward was just a reflection of what’s inside.” Only 20 years old, Boonk Gang was a sensation, filming himself stealing things from people and stores. He would run away and laugh. He also destroyed things at stores. People were eating up his crazy antics online. Eventually, the reckless behavior landed him in jail – hit and…