Where the Music Stopped
A visit to the site of the Nova Festival massacre reveals the horror of October 7—but also the resilience of love, memory, and faith. Among ashes and twisted metal, stories of sacrifice and hope endure.
Israel Under Fire: What This Means for the Church
The prayers we offered on Sunday for God’s protection over Israel seemed all the more prescient in light of Tuesday’s devastating news. On October 1, 2024, Iran unleashed Operation True Promise 2, a large-scale missile assault against Israel in retaliation for the recent assassinations of top leaders from Hamas and Hezbollah. The attack, involving some 200 missiles fired in two waves, struck multiple locations across the country. Israel’s air defenses intercepted many of the rockets, averting greater devastation and loss of life—though one Palestinian was killed by a fragment in Jericho. Iran’s audacious response followed Israel’s targeted elimination of Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh in Beirut and Tehran.