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Michele Bachmann had always associated coloring pages with her toddlers - so she was surprised when her 11th grade foster daughter was assigned to color a poster for "math homework." The more Bachmann looked at what her children learned in the public schools, the more concerned she grew. Her children were not only failing to learn essential knowledge and skills, but they were also being steeped in a progressive, anti-American ideology.

On its opening weekend, Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" delivered the highest-grossing global debut of his career, repopularizing a narrative as old as Western storytelling. More than 2,000 years after Homer shaped the folklore into an epic poem, audiences flocked to a story about a flawed man braving impossible odds to reach home. The appetite is revealing, but n ot because Odysseus represents a new kind of hero. In fact, his enduring appeal demonstrates just the opposite.

A voice rises from a Chicago studio microphone and spills through the airwaves, crackling to life on radios across the region: "I want you to know Him." One hundred years later, Moody Radio continues to invite listeners to know Christ through 69 full-power stations and translators alongside a growing digital media ministry. Throughout the decades, Moody Radio has remained faithful to its purpose while advancing Christian communication into new mediums.

Social media is designed to capture attention, cultivate dependence, and keep users returning every second - a business model that profits from human weakness. However, mainstream social media platforms may also be the widest-reaching outlets for Christian communicators - and the very addiction they cultivate reveals humanity's longing for the freedom only the Gospel can provide. It's addictive. It's missional. It's complicated. The needs driving them online are needs only Jesus satisfies.

Troy A. Miller, NRB president & CEO, spoke with Lauren Green on the Fox News podcast "Lighthouse Faith" about the global battle to preserve Judeo-Christian values. "In the Judeo-Christian worldview, one of the things we hold to dearly is individual rights and civil rights," Miller said. "In Islam, individual rights only apply to other Muslims. ...

Mike Gwartney launched Radio South Sudan to broadcast the Gospel and emergency information across a nation torn by civil war.

Christian persecution is a reality Daniel lives and breathes each day as he shares the Gospel under the hostile Indian government. "Their main agenda is to stop Christianity at any cost," Daniel said. "Even if that Christianity is helping our people." As a physician and the CEO of a multifaceted ministry serving the people of India through evangelism, education, and humanitarian relief, Daniel has dedicated his life to healing bodies and souls for the Kingdom of God.

David Rives discovered his first fossil doing what any other eight-year-old does - digging in his backyard. At first, he thought it was a rock, but then he noticed an unusual shape on the back. "That's not a rock," he remembers thinking. "There's something else here." He flipped through a kids' fossil identification guide, searching for a match. "This is it!" he cried out. "It's called a crinoid ... a deep-sea creature." Rives looked up at his dusty backyard in the land-locked state of Tennessee.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 23, 2026 FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: presscenter@nrb.org NRB Welcomes Four New Members in Second Quarter of 2026 WASHINGTON, D.C. (NRB) - The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), the world's largest association of Christian communicators, welcomed four new organizations and individuals into membership during the second quarter of 2026, continuing the association's momentum as Christian communicators expand their reach across media and ministry.

In all Jacob Lavee's years as head of the Israeli Transplant Association and pioneer in the field of organ transplant surgeries, he had never heard a proclamation like that of his patient in 2005: "I am tired of waiting. I am going to China to get the heart I need." It should not be possible. Vital organs can only be procured after tragic accidents kill donors. That is why the wait time was so long and unpredictable, even for a patient at the top of the waiting list.