Either Way

In April 2026, Bryan Johnson published his simplified daily routine for maximal health. It takes four hours and forty-six minutes. It includes two types of light treatment, a sauna session, and over a hundred supplements. His company, Blueprint, offers data-driven longevity protocols to help its customers reach an ambitious goal: "Don't Die."

I've gotten angry that corrupt leaders so often seem to get their way. But that's because I had a short-term perspective. I'm guessing Kanakuk's leaders thought they could cover up Pete Newman's fourteen years of sexually abusing children by forcing Trey Carlock to sign a non-disclosure agreement. But they had no idea that Trey's death in 2019 would spur a national movement to legally prohibit the use of NDAs for survivors of child sexual abuse and point the spotlight at how the camp's leaders failed to protect children.

Elisabeth Scott Stam, February 22, 1906 / "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." Philippians 1:21. It's a short, stark tombstone, placed in the Wuhu Foreign Cemetery in China. Betty was a missionary there, beheaded along with her husband, John, by Communist forces. When the local missionaries received her body, they etched in stone a public witness to the benefits of her death.

"I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people." In July 1939, Bonhoeffer wrote these famous words in a letter to a friend. Soon after, he left the safety of New York and returned to Nazi Germany.

Christianity Today tells the story of a pastor who drives two members of his church to work every day. They're legal immigrants who are afraid of ICE. So he turns off location services on his phone, drives the speed limit, and scans the parking lot before they get out of the car. He told reporter Emily Belz, "These are the people God has placed in our lives. What can we do to help them out?"