Philip C. Johnson | June 16, 2026 UFC Freedom 250 was over. The fireworks had faded. President Trump had celebrated his 80th birthday with Dana White and ten thousand cheering fans on the South Lawn. What most Americans did not know, what the FBI was only beginning to unseal, was how close the evening had … Continue reading A Mother Stopped a Massacre
By Philip C. Johnson | June 16, 2026 In mid-June 2026, the United States and Iran announced a memorandum of understanding to extend their fragile ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Mediated by Pakistan, both sides declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon. A formal signing is … Continue reading US-Iran “Peace” Deal: Just Another Extended Ceasefire?
Philip C. Johnson | June 12, 2026 Earlier this month I was standing in Rome with a group of adult travelers, teaching inside the ruins. The Forum. The Colosseum. The Arch of Titus. You cannot stand in those places and treat them as backdrop. The stones demand something from you. They are not simply old. … Continue reading Echoes of Empires: What Rome tells us about America
By Philip C. Johnson — May 17, 2026 http://www.globalnext.org I just returned from a Global Next conference in Greece, and against my usual habit, I’m writing about a student group, rather than a global event. In twenty years of taking students and adults around the world, anchoring biblical truth to the places where it happened, … Continue reading Two Pies, One Grandson, and the Faithfulness of God
By Philip C. Johnson—April 27, 2026 Saturday Night at the Hilton The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is supposed to be Washington’s annual truce — journalists and power sharing a meal, a few laughs, and the polite fiction that they don’t despise each other. On Saturday night, April 25, at the Washington Hilton, that fiction died … Continue reading SHOT HEARD ACROSS THE BALLROOM—The third attempt on Donald Trump’s life
By Philip C Johnson, April 5, 2026 This Easter Sunday falls on the exact date many scholars believe Christ rose from the dead — April 5, AD 33. Here’s why that matters, what the prophets said, and what endures beyond all the calendars. Today is Easter. That sentence is simple enough. But this year, something … Continue reading EASTER SUNDAY · APRIL 5, 2026: The Day the Calendar Remembered
By Philip C. Johnson | April 3, 2026 I’ve spent the last month in Hiroshima, Japan, with U.S. students studying global conflict from a Christian perspective. Standing at history’s most famous Ground Zero while another unfolds in real time sharpens the mind. Now back home—briefly—it’s worth asking the oldest question in warfare about the U.S.-Israeli … Continue reading “Navy Gone, Air Force in Ruins”: Trump’s Iran Strike—Game-Changer or Temporary Pau
By Philip C. JohnsonMarch 4, 2026 As U.S. and Israeli forces pound Iranian targets in Operation Epic Fury – now entering its fifth day with over 1,000 IDF sorties, B-1 bomber runs on Tehran’s command centers, and the confirmed killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – the battlefield isn’t just physical. For Iran’s ruling … Continue reading Is Trump the Dajjal? Iran’s Radical Shiite Clerics Say Yes
By Philip C. JohnsonFebruary 28, 2026 Why This War Has Been Brewing Decades of pure, concentrated rage: Iran’s 1979 Revolution, its nuclear obsessions, and a constellation of terror proxies (Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas) pointed like daggers at Israel and the “Great Satan” America. Israel has always viewed a nuclear Iran as literal doomsday. Washington flip-flopped between … Continue reading US, Israel, and Iran at War
By Philip C. Johnson February 14, 2026 You know that feeling when something massive is brewing, but most people are still scrolling past it? That’s exactly what’s going on with artificial intelligence right now. In just the past couple of weeks, two separate but related phenomena have exploded online, together convincing a lot of people … Continue reading Something Big Is Happening: AI’s Sudden Leap and the Apocalyptic Vibes It’s Stirring
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