Richard Franz

According to a recent social media post from workers of Israel’s Temple Institute, efforts continue unabated to find what Jewish authorities might consider an “unblemished” red heifer, indicating the failure of a batch of specimens brought to Israel from Texas in 2022 to pass examination. The recent disqualification of the last of these five red heifers represents a setback for the Temple Institute’s preparations.

Over the past century, the United States has replenished more than 818 miles of coastline with new sand—a staggering effort to combat the natural erosion that threatens both property and prosperity. According to the National Beach Nourishment Database, this process has involved the placement of roughly 1.5 billion cubic yards of sand, costing billions of dollars.

On This Date, a book authored by Carl M. Cannon, has a timely bit of American history relevant for any Christian observing the Passover.

It was on the day before the Passover, April 9, 1865, that Robert E. Lee told his aide, “The time had come for capitulation”—for surrender. His aide, Colonel Walter Herron Taylor, replied that any other fate would be preferable.

Governments and people around the world, from Asia to Europe and throughout the Middle East, are in stunned disbelief as Donald Trump bewildered political pollsters with an unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton in the United States presidential election. Some news pundits and populists have hailed the result as a triumph of the people over a failed political establishment.