When someone is hearing voices, spiraling in delusion, or trapped in torment, helpers face a hard question: demons, diagnoses, or both? In this thoughtful essay, Jennifer Jill Schwirzer, LPC, EdD, offers a biblically grounded and clinically informed guide for pastors, coaches, and counselors. With clarity and compassion, she calls us to holistic care that honors brain science, spiritual reality, and the hope of Christ for those seeking to escape the darkness.

Negative emotions have become suspect in some spiritual spaces, treated as evidence of demonic influence rather than part of ordinary human life. This reflex to cast out what should be understood ends up multiplying fear rather than healing it. Discernment requires patience, not panic. Growth rarely comes through a single dramatic moment. It comes through the slower work of examining habits, renewing the mind, and walking the long road of sanctification with honesty and care.

Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s memoir Infidel traces her journey from Islam to atheism and, more recently, to Christianity. Her story raises a deeper question: what turns religion into oppression. This reflection explores how fear-driven faith distorts both Islam and Christianity, and why the gospel’s center, a God who sacrifices Himself for humanity, protects religion from becoming bondage and restores faith to its true purpose.

Medical frustration meets practical solutions. After years of allergic rhinitis, hair thinning, and SIBO, Dr. Jen shares three treatments that finally brought relief. From sublingual immunotherapy drops to red light therapy and targeted digestive support, these discoveries highlight the power of human ingenuity and the hope of restored health.

Should pastors address politics from the pulpit? Christians face a tension between moral clarity and partisan division. Issues like abortion, immigration, marriage, and justice are deeply moral and deeply politicized. How can churches preach truth without becoming political? This article explores how to lift up Jesus while guiding believers through complex cultural debates.

Immigration stirs strong emotions, amplified by media narratives and political conflict. How do we stay grounded without losing compassion or conviction? Drawing from psychology, sociology, and Scripture, this reflection explores welcoming the foreigner, respecting civil authority, resisting outrage culture, and choosing humility over pride. Real change begins with real people, not online battles.

Few issues stir deeper emotion than abortion. As a faith-based mental health advocate, I approach it through both Scripture and the human heart. God grants agency, yet calls us to choose life. The unborn are known and loved by Him, and women carry real burdens. This conversation holds moral clarity and mercy together, seeking healing that restores both conscience and hope.

So often the problem with empathy isn’t its existence, but its misplacement. This is why we need, along with more empathy, good discernment to direct its distribution.

By Richard M. Davidson, PhD Senior Research Professor of Old Testament Interpretation Seventh day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University Reveling in Christmas Lights I revel in the lights of Christmas!  This afternoon I came home and put up our Christmas lights decorating the entrance to our house. Tonight our whole local Adventist community here at Andrews University is being dazzled by the annual Academy-sponsored “Feast of Lights.”  Along with enjoying the beau

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Conservative Evangelical Pastor John MacArthur died July 14 at the age of 86, leaving behind a large legacy. As pastor of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, he preached from its pulpit up to five times a week for most of 56 years. Known for an expository approach, many lauded him as faithful to Scripture in the midst of compromise. Truthfully, I agreed with him on many points. But his views of submission of women, no. They were extreme. Here’s a direct quote: “A woman, wh