Iran said this morning that it had targeted a US air base in response to recent US military attacks. According to Forbes, a deal over the Strait of Hormuz now “hangs in [the] balance.” Hours earlier, President Trump signaled that an agreement between the two sides wasn’t close. The global oil benchmark soared above $98 per barrel early this morning after reports of the attacks emerged. When Americans were captured at the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, ABC News covered the ongoing crisis under the title, “America Held Hostage.” It seems we have been held hostage to Iran ever since. Why can’t the West solve this problem in a permanent way?

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth has condemned a Memorial Day social media post by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that featured the images and names of thirteen soldiers killed during the military conflict with Iran. After similar criticism on both sides of the aisle, the DNC deleted the post. From then until now, politics in America have often been practiced on a level approaching religious fervor. Our next election season begins as soon as the last election is over. Our era of 24/7 news coverage, social media, and narrated algorithms turns up the heat even further. But there’s another factor at work, one that transcends politics and is vital to us all.

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Last Saturday, a paraglider in Austria was floating along when a Cessna 172 flew overhead and shredded her sail to pieces. The woman began spinning and plummeted to the earth before pulling her emergency chute. In the caption of her now-viral selfie video, Sabrina writes that May 23 will always be like a second birthday to her, since she knows how lucky she is to be alive. But like Sabrina, I have had a second birthday. If you are a born-again believer, the same is true for you. The key to the Christian life is to experience every day what we experienced on that day. How do we do this?

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Christians are used to our religious holidays being preempted for secular purposes. Nonetheless, we should be surprised that even a secular holiday such as Memorial Day has been secularized as well. Many Americans conflate Memorial Day with Veterans Day and think they are intended to fly flags and feel patriotic sentiments in honor of all our military. Many will not even be this reflective, spending today as the “unofficial beginning of summer” with backyard barbeques and similar holiday activities. It is especially ironic that a day intended to commemorate the sacrifice of our military heroes has been sacrificed in this way. There is a spiritual lesson here for us, one that transcends the day and its history.

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For more on today’s Daily Artilce theme, please see Dr. Jim Denison's latest website article, “Are we celebrating or commemorating? The forgotten origin of Memorial Day.”

The Justice Department announced that it was charging Raúl Castro, the ninety-four-year-old former leader of Cuba, with murder and conspiracy to kill American citizens. The allegations stem from Castro’s role in authorizing the Cuban military to shoot down two American planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue in 1996. The Trump administration’s interference with foreign regimes has a mixed record of success, from early hope with Venezuela to ever-worsening conflict with Iran. When the time comes for change in Cuba, where it falls along that spectrum will likely depend upon how well the Trump administration has learned from its past mistakes. And that same basic principle is one worth applying to our own lives today.

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air its last show tonight. Why should you care? The ending could be nostalgic if you’re old enough to remember when David Letterman started the show in 1993 after being passed over as Johnny Carson’s successor on The Tonight Show. You might care about the controversy over the show’s ending: some claim that CBS acted for political reasons, while others point to reports that the show had been losing $40 million a year. I think the show’s ending is relevant for a different reason.

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At least 136 people have died in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but health officials say the number could be much higher. The director general of the World Health Organization said he is “deeply concerned about the scale and speed of the epidemic,” which is being caused by a type of Ebola for which there are no vaccines or treatments. Reading bad news can steal your hope; however, the good news is that there is a way to navigate bad news with the best news of all. This week, we’re discussing finding hope in surprising places. Today, we’ll consider the most surprising place of all. 

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In the day’s news, we are invited to put our hope in religion, politics, medical science, artificial intelligence, or future generations—but each continues to reveal its limits. By contrast, Jesus never glossed over the cost of discipleship, warning, “If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” Yet “as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too,” as suffering drives us from self-reliance into deeper dependence on the Spirit. The more Christlike we become, the more we discover “him who is wholly lovable, wholly desirable.”

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Nicholas Kristof’s recent New York Times article alleging widespread Israeli sexual violence has sparked fierce debate. Still, the greater danger is the “fallacy of false equivalence” that leads many to conclude Hamas and Israel are morally the same. In a culture increasingly shaped by collectivism, it becomes easy to see all Palestinians as terrorists or all Israelis as oppressors, even though Scripture reminds us that “the soul who sins shall die” and that every person is an immortal soul for whom Christ died. The more personally we experience the living Lord Jesus and his transforming love, the more passionately we will want to share it with our lost world.

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In 2024, the Russian ship MV Ursa Major sank about 60 miles off the coast of Spain. While the loss was noteworthy, the world moved on pretty quickly. However, CNN released new details on the incident that point to the nuclear nature of the ship’s true cargo and a Western plot to ensure that it never reached its final destination. The question remains who sunk the vessel in the first place, especially during a time when NATO was trying to avoid giving Russia a reason to push harder into Ukraine. But there are times when doing nothing poses the greatest risk. Some of the hardest times to follow God’s will are when we can think of all the ways doing so could go wrong.

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President Trump’s ongoing summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping is interesting, even historic, but seems less relevant personally. After the two presidents conducted their first meeting, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning posted overnight on X, claiming that the most important issue between the two countries was “the Taiwan question.” Why is the “Taiwan question” the “most important issue” between the world’s two superpowers? And how do we manage our fears of potential impending conflict? We can pray specifically about the issues we face, trusting our omniscient and omnipotent Father to do what we cannot do.

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