Welcome back to High on Christ! A school chaplain preached one sermon and got reported to anti-terror police. Yes, really.

Here is what the world is up to.

The Bullets

  • 140 targets in one night: After Iran hit a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. forces struck about 140 Iranian military sites overnight, the biggest wave yet, with Trump declaring the strait "open for business."

  • Victims arrested, attackers freed: After a mob stoned a Coptic church in Egypt and injured Christians, police detained four of the victims and freed them only once they dropped their complaint.

  • Europe presses Pakistan: The European Parliament pressed Pakistan to stop the abduction and forced conversion of minority girls, after a court there returned a kidnapped 13-year-old Christian to her captor.

  • The Kirk case heads toward trial: A hearing for Tyler Robinson, accused of killing Charlie Kirk, wrapped with his defense attacking the DNA evidence, while Candace Owens drew backlash for pushing conspiracy theories about the case.

One Sermon, Seven Years

A British school chaplain just won a seven-year fight to clear his name.
Of what?
His school branded him a risk and reported him to an anti-terror program. For a sermon.
A sermon flagged him as a terror risk?
In 2019 a student asked why they "had to accept" LGBT teaching at their Christian school. He said you're free to disagree and debate it.
That's it?
That's it. They fired him and reported him to Prevent, Britain's counter-terror program.
For "you can disagree"?
Basically. Plus a safeguarding blacklist.
And now?
A review found he harmed no one. Ban overturned, settlement reached.
Seven years for that.
Seven years. All he wanted was to teach what the church believes.

Read more here.

Spiritual Perspective

It can cost years to stand your ground, and it did here. "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you on my account" (Matthew 5:11), and every so often, like now, vindication arrives on this side of heaven too.

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God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.

- Francis Chan

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