Can Someone Please Talk to the Governor of Tennessee?

I hate the death penalty. And I hate it even more in a case such as this one in Tennessee today. It’s been 35 years since the murders that got...

Twelve Things That Caught My Eye Today: February 19, 2020 (Remembering the Coptic Martyrs & More)

1. Five Years Ago, ISIS Executed 21 Christians on a Beach in Libya 2. Pastor among 2 dozen killed after gunmen storm church service in Burkina Faso ...

Twelve Things That Caught My Eye Today: (The Collapse of International Adoption, a Rallying Cry to Foster Care, Catholics in China & More; February 18, 2020)

1. The Collapse of International Adoption is a Tragedy 2. Amidst Plagues: The Church’s Call to Foster Care and More | Church Life Journal |...

Twelve Things That Caught My Eye Today: Quitting the Dems over Abortion & a Poem for the Ages — & the Mystical Life (February 10, 2020)

1. If you happen to be in Charlotte, N.C. and a Catholic, Christian, seeker, or “none,” stop by for this evangelization event the ministry Hard as...

Twenty Things That Caught My Eye Today: Seminarian Murdered in Iraq, Rush Limbaugh & More (Feb. 4, 2020)

1. It was announced over the weekend that an 18-year-old seminarian in Nigeria has been murdered. 2. Copts Fear Retaliation for Speaking Publicly...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (January 23, 2020): March for Life & More

Do America a favor? Pray for the March for Life? Pray for the young people and so many others who travel to witness to the joy of defending innocent...

Twenty Things That Caught My Eye Today: Nigeria, Surrogacy, Foster Care & More (January 17, 2020)

It’s a little longer today, because I haven’t gotten to posting one in a few days . . . 1. 4 Nigerian seminarians abducted while on seminary...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (January 7, 2019)

1. Syria: five children killed in missile strike on displacement camp 2. Judge rules that doctors can take baby off life support against mother’s...

Fifteen Things That Caught My Eye Today: Abortion As Leading Cause of Death, Prayers for Iraq, and the Suffering of Anti-Semitism (January 3, 2019)

1. Please pray for the long-suffering people of Iraq. 2. Critically Injured Monsey Victim Is a Beloved Scholar Who Collected for the Poor 3. This is...

Twelve Things That Caught My Eye Today: On Anti-Semitism, Nigeria, J. K. Rowling & More (January 2, 2020)

1. Robert Nicholson: American Christians should lead the fight against anti-Semitism 2. Pastor Seized One Year Ago Still Missing In China’s...

Twelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (December 23, 2019): Rebuilding in Iraq, Echo of Christmas in Adoption & More

1. Cathedral in Iraq’s largest Christian town to be rebuilt in 2020 2. World’s largest Menorah in NYC to shine brighter on Hanukkah – New York...

Just a Reminder: Time Is Running Out to Apply to Be an NRI Regional Fellow — Consider the Burke to Buckley Program

The next sessions are in N.Y., D.C., and Philadelphia, and the application deadline is Monday. It’s really meant for people who love our country and...

Twenty Things That Caught My Eye Today (December 20, 2019): On Christianity Today, Foster Care & a Little Christmas, Too

1. About Christianity Today and impeachment: A lot of Christians made a prudential judgment about Donald Trump based chiefly on abortion, right? If...

These Last Days of Advent and Christmas with The Gospel of John: A Gift for the Soul in Manhattan

Broadway actor Ken Jennings just about stole my heart earlier this month as he talked about The Gospel of John . He’s made Scripture into a prayer...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (December 19, 2019)

1. Kidnapped Nigerian teen refusing to renounce Christianity a ‘living martyr’, aid worker says 2. It took me a long time to actually get...

Attention You in the Vicinity of NYC, DC & Philly: Be a National Review Institute Regional Fellow This Spring. Deadline Is Monday.

I suspect you may have seen here before — or in the print magazine — that the National Review Institute has regional fellows programs in a number...

Twelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (December 18, 2019)

1. Aleppo priest says dire Christmas awaits Christians trapped by Syria’s civil war 2. Lesbos migrant camp children ‘say they want to die’ –...

Twelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (December 17, 2019)

If you are in NY, Philadelphia, or D.C., have you considered NRI’s regional fellowship program. It equips for better citizenship, I think it’s a...

Thank God for the Gift of NRI

Look, there’s no way around it, these are trying times. But we are not the first people to experience challenges. And we are not the ones we have...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (December 16, 2019)

If you are buying A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living as Christmas gifts, I’d be happy to drop a signed bookplate in the...

Twelve Things That Caught My Eye Today (December 12, 2019)

1. I’m not sure what’s more terrifying: that there was an anti-Semitic massacre at a kosher supermarket. Or that few seem to care. — Bethany S....

Twelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (December 10, 2019)

Would you please say a prayer for these two guards injured in an attack at a D.C. church (the basilica adjacent to Catholic University where Pope...

Ten Things the Caught My Eye Today (December 5, 2019)

1. I’m grateful for this interview in America magazine titled “How prayer changes politics,” about A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom...

Twelve Things That Caught My Eye Today (December 3, 2019)

1. If you've been in NE Syria as I have, you know this isn't exaggerated. @NATO has a lot to answer for, and its future is at stake for allowing...

Twelve Things That Caught My Eye Today (December (!) 2, 2019)

1. Gunmen massacre 14 Christians during Protestant service in Burkina Faso 2. The things that no longer shock us: In Mahshahr, Iran's IRGC gunmen...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (November 27, 2019)

1. Christian leaders in Egypt reflect on persecution of Coptic minority 2. Holy Land Christians: Threatened With Extinction, but Still Bearing...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (November 26, 2019)

1. Mindy Belz from Syria 2. Claudia Rosett: Hong Kong’s Finest Hour 3. Lech Walesa and Hong Kong 4. Walter Russell Mead: China Is Europe’s...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (November 25, 2019)

1. Data leak reveals how China ‘brainwashes’ Uighurs in prison camps — BBC News 2. There is still a national foster-care crisis 3. More...

Fifteen Things That Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 18, 2019)

1. Matthew Schmitz writes in First Things : Despite the persecution, Egypt’s Christians are winning converts. The number and names of converts must...

Join Ramesh Ponnuru and Ivanka Trump Thursday at 2 Talking Paid Family Leave

For a long time now, all I want to do is get people to focus on issues where we might be able to agree and get something done. That’s why today on...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye (November 13, 2019)

1. The car of Armenian church leaders who were shot at were traveling to Deir ez-Zor to inspect an Armenian Catholic Church which has suffered damage...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye (November 8, 2019)

1. A D.C. event you are invited to next week: Adopting a Culture of Life and Love: Protecting and Defending Vulnerable Children and Families Against...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 7, 2019)

1.   Born at just 18 weeks, this profound video of Baby Jaxon illustrates the clear humanity of the preborn. https://t.co/200QpFcfdr — Live...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (November 5, 2019)

1. This is one of those reports (from China, about the persecution of the Uighurs) that you pray isn’t true, but can’t look away from because...

Seven Things that Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 4, 2019)

1. Russell Moore in the WSJ: Trump Reverses Obama’s Anti-Religious Decree 2. “I had to help them”: Single dad adopts 5 siblings so they can...

What Are You Doing Tonight in New York City? How about Witnessing to Hope and Life?

Over the weekend, I heard the details of a story involving an eighth grader who was able to rally behind his single mother who broke down and told him...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (Nov. 1, 2019)

1. Martyrdom cause for All Hallow’s Eve church massacre in Iraq completes first phase 2. Praying for the Family that I Never Knew – a priest...

Adoption in NYC: Let’s Come Together Monday Night

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (October 29, 2019)

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (October 25, 2019)

1. Peggy Noonan today (this is the end of the column, read the whole thing, if you can): Can we agree his is a radical, maximalist stand? Under his...

Fifteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 24, 2019)

1. New data show first foster care decrease since 2011, record number of adoptions 2. United Arab Emirates to fund rebuilding of Catholic churches...

Fifteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 22, 2019)

National Review Institute is co-sponsoring a screening and discussion of an beautiful adoption documentary, I Lived on Parker Avenue, at the Sheen...

Fifteen Things That Caught My Eye Today (October 21, 2019)

1. Chinese authorities demolish megachurch, arrest pastors https://t.co/St4UfIGiCx — Disrn (@DisrnNews) October 20, 2019 2. About China’s...

Ten Things That Caught My Eye Today (October 16, 2019)

1. People need to seriously take up the cause of praying for Dr. Leana. First, in thanksgiving that the former president of Planned Parenthood would...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 15, 2019)

1. Reminder: these #Syrian Refugees that Erdogan is repatriating are not really returning home. He wants to resettle them in new communities by...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 14, 2019)

If you’re reading this on Columbus Day, A Year with the Mystics is 40 percent off from the publisher today. (Other books, too.) Use this link and...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 11, 2019)

Last night, some of us had a really beautiful night with The Human Life Review, honoring Helen Alvare and our very own Rich Lowry. Subscribers to my...

Ten Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 10, 2019)

1. This is so disturbing: I just spoke to a distraught US Special Forces soldier who is among the 1000 or so US troops in Syria tonight who is serving...

Fifteen Things that Caught My Eye Today (October 9, 2019)

I’ll be talking with Tim Carney about his book Alienated America this Friday night in NYC. All are welcome. Details here. 1. In Christianity Today:...

Twelve Things That Caught My Eye Today (October 7, 2019)

An interview about A Year with the Mystics Amazingly, by the way, it’s still $15.96 off on Amazon I did put it together thinking it would make a...