A Note on the Elisabeth Elliot Article Our editor in chief on why the piece was taken down and why it was republished. christianitytoday.com/2026/1…

Harry Chapin released "Cat's in the Cradle" in 1974. Fathers are still living it. A man in my cohort told us about stopping by his grown son's place: "I just had one of those cats in the cradle situations... hey, son, I would like to come over... He goes, oh, dad, I'll see you later... I didn't see him, and I remember feeling really sad about it." That's the song. The son grows up just like his dad. Busy. Always later. Here's the hard truth underneath it: our kids learn how to make time for people by watching whether we made time for them. If your kids are still at home: 1. Say yes to the next thing they ask you to do, even if it's inconvenient. 2. Put your phone in another room for one full hour this week and just be with them. If your kids are grown: 1. Stop waiting for them to find the time. Ask specifically. "Breakfast Saturday at 8, my treat." 2. Keep it low pressure. You're rebuilding a habit, not having a summit. It isn't too late for either one.

"No group of Americans seems to be having more sex—and more satisfying sex—than married men & women who regularly attend a place of worship. In fact, we find the only Americans who have avoided the country’s “sex recession” are husbands & wives who attend religious services at least twice a month." ~ my latest @TheAtlantic w/ @grantjbailey

Stunned by a post: a 21-year-old American college student made $43,000 in a month with an AI virtual girlfriend. He set up an OnlyFans account called Maya. This Maya is 22 years old, tagged as a UCF psychology dropout, with 1,247 paid subscribers, and the highest-spending fan shelled out $1,847. But the most crucial part? The girl in those photos doesn't even exist. No real person on camera, no real person typing. All the messages are written by AI, the photos are AI-generated, and the voice is AI-synthesized. The entire Maya boils down to just four documents on his MacBook. Back in the day, building an AI virtual influencer took anywhere from six months to a year and a half. Now, he's got it running in just 4 weeks. Looking ahead, it might take only a weekend to whip one up. These four files break down like this: · persona.md, spelling out Maya's character, backstory, and likes; · voice.md, locking in her speaking tone and voice style; · flux.md, standardizing her appearance and photo style to ensure all images look like the same person; · brain.md, logging what each subscriber has chatted about and their preferences. Before the AI replies to any fan, it reads through all four files, so the persona never breaks, and it never forgets what the fan has said. Truth be told, the tech stack is so ridiculously simple it's almost absurd. That famous virtual influencer Aitana López from before? Her team took 18 months to pull her together. Now, a Maya-style setup is done and dusted in 4 weeks. This isn't sci-fi—it's something anyone with a computer can replicate step by step. And it's not just OnlyFans; slap this workflow onto Instagram, TikTok, or Twitch, and it'll run just as smoothly. AI has basically driven the cost of creating a virtual person down to zero. At this point, the only real barrier left is whether you've got the taste to decide what this virtual person should even look like.

I absolutely reject this version of “Christian Nationalism” (patent pending) that has a different version of the Great Commission. I am part of a small group of believers who gathers occasionally to discuss political stuff from a Christian worldview. The last time we met we tabled (at my request) the question of whether Christian Nationalism is baked into the command to “make disciples of all nations.” In our group people are conservative and serious about Scripture and not a single one of them was willing to defend that view of CN, myself included. It was the first time nobody there was willing to defend a proposition. This is because of how blatantly clear it is that Webbon’s new view of the gospel is not true. When you start coming up with novel versions of the gospel it’s all over. Webbon, it’s all over.

Honestly, this detail about Judas is one of the most terrifying things in the entire Bible... and everybody misses it. Listen closely to how Judas responds to Jesus in Matthew 26.

The average American has been to five of these cities. How many have you been to?