With the decline of mainstream media, independent journalists have picked up the mantle as disseminators of truth and exposers of hidden agendas.

None have done as much work recently revealing the true nature of what were once “Made in America” companies as former producer-turned-conservative powerhouse Robby Starbuck and his team.

Their exposé on Tractor Supply Co. saw the company abandon their radical left-wing DEI policies and focus on what made them who they are today: producing quality equipment for America farmers.

Sadly, another company has recently been exposed as a pusher of anti-American, and in this case, anti-Christian practices, and it is none other than the iconic John Deere manufacturing company.

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Few companies have roots as deep into Americana as John Deere. The mere mention of the name brings to mind its iconic green tractor and the accompanying country song by Joe Diffie.

Yet the current executive leadership under CEO John May has pushed an agenda which Starbuck calls “much worse than Tractor Supply Co.”

Here is the breakdown of bullet-point items Starbuck uncovered and revealed in his now-viral post which has been viewed on the social media platform X over four million times:

• Funding a pride event for kids as young as three
• “Genderbread man” training
• They ask employees to list their “preferred pronouns” on all communications
• Bill Gates is listed as their largest shareholder
• John Deere celebrated their accounting and finance team taking United Way’s 21-day “United For Equity” program
• When I did “United For Equity” program, it promoted Ibram Kendi, the woke children’s book “Anti-Racist Baby,” “Awake to Woke to Work,” a podcast on the concept of “Whiteness,” woke activist Robin DiAngelo, bigotry against Christians who supposedly have “Christian Privilege,” and more
• The woke policies have spread across the global John Deere brand with many of their DEI policies also being forced on their Latin America and India branches
• LGBTQ+ & race-based identity groups at corporate
• A total commitment to DEI policies
• 95/100 CEI score from the HRC

For those who are unaware of the CEI score, aka “Corporate Equality Index” put forth by the Human Rights Campaign, here is how they describe it on their website:

“As the national benchmarking tool measuring policies, practices and benefits pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) employees, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index is a primary driving force for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion. Data from the CEI tells the story of over two decades of year-over-year growth in the adoption of these critical policies and practices indicative of employers’ commitment to equality.”

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For those who have been saying Christians don’t shape culture or policy, we have been seeing for decades now the result of that. This has been a false statement from the beginning, as Christianity is what shaped America into the blessed nation she became, faults and all.

America never abandoned her Christian roots, and that is why her citizens continued fighting for the freedom of those who were oppressed and stood on biblical values in all aspects of cutlure.

When they don’t, we get a society that mutilates children, opposes God in every way possible and persecutes any who think differently than what the satanic narrative proposes.

Hopefully, this will be a wake-up call to consumers to put their money where their values are, and for companies like John Deere to think twice before adopting discriminatory and destructive Marxist policies.

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What started out as a fun youth event hiking the beautiful and scenic trails of Utah, quickly turned into a horrifying experience.

While 14-year-old Peyton Bailey was capturing the moment on her phone, a storm was moving in bringing with it rain, hail and lightning.

“There’s lightning and that’s when it coincidentally just happened to just crash right in front of us,” Bailey says in an interview with FOX13.

Her amateur filming caught her fellow hikers screaming in shock as lightning hit the ground they were standing on, crashing all around them.

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“It was so bright and the sound was so loud, there was ringing in my ears and it felt like a bunch of weight had hit my head and pushed me backwards,” Bailey recalls.

According to reports, dozens of the youth had to be transported to the hospital by various means due to electrocution, with two of their injuries being severe enough to warrant medevac by helicopter.

“It felt like someone had hit me with a baseball bat in my head and then a huge pressure of thousands of pounds was on me, but then it released, and my heart was beating so fast,” Bailey told Fox News Digital via email. “I stood up quickly, and we were all in shock saying, ‘We just got hit by lightning!’ We were giggling at first, but then the reality set in.”

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“The storm rolled in so fast and many of our leaders had already left to get the trucks to get us out of the storm. Had they not, we wouldn’t have gotten out so quick. That was a miracle before the lightning struck,” Bailey recalls.

Bailey and others chalk this non-fatal event up to divine intervention looking out for them and ensuring no one lost their life that day.

“We believe angels and a loving heavenly Father were protecting us,” Bailey says.

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It is easy to take for granted the ease with which we are capable of going to a grocery store and choosing from a wide variety of food in the West.

While this blessing came from honoring God and a system that brought forth abundance for the nations, there are many countries that have not experienced this and currently are teetering on the brink of collapse.

This is the future millions in Sudan are facing, as the international outreach program World Vision warns the war-torn country will see “the worst levels of acute food insecurity” in its history.

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While governments and programs try and change the wording, it breaks down to one thing: Sudan is facing a famine of massive proportion.

World Vision highlighted five areas which threaten millions in the nearly failed state, which has seen fighting and food shortages now for decades:

• “Over half the population of Sudan (six million people) is facing crisis or worse conditions of food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between June and September of this year.”
• “Five million people (18% of the population) are facing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 4, Emergency).”
• “Risk of famine across 14 areas is impacting local residents, internally displaced people and refugees in Sudan from neighboring countries.”
• “UNICEF says nearly nine million children face acute food insecurity and over 700,000 children under age five are at risk of death.”
• “Humanitarian agencies need unhindered access and full funding of the humanitarian appeals for Sudan and neighboring countries.”

As reported by World Vision, “The last famine declaration in East Africa was in 2017 in South Sudan, and prior to that, 2011 in Somalia. In both cases, hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and children have suffered long-term impacts from malnutrition and loss of agriculture outputs. The situation in Sudan is similarly grim.”

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Getting tunnel vision on the multitude of problems at home makes it easy to not notice the indicators around the world of potential end-times indicators.

Jesus tells us these events must take place before His return, and one of them is famine as listed in Matthew 24:7. Just because it is not taking place in the West, yet, does not mean it is not here on Earth at this very moment.

Christians are called to be prepared at any given time for Christ’s return, and in doing so help those who are suffering in the world. For those who we feed and clothe out of compassion, so too are we serving Christ (Matt. 25:44-45).

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Artificial intelligence, much like the internet, is here and it looks like it is here to stay.

While many are still weary of the new technologies, with many of the minds on the frontline of its development warning of the dangers associated with the unproven AI, others are pushing forward into the new frontier in all areas of society and culture.

Including the church.

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Now, a new artificial intelligence platform, Pulpit AI, is set to launch later this summer, providing church leaders and volunteers a way to save time on everyday tasks by generating content from sermons to engage congregants beyond church walls.

Founded by Michael Whittle, Pulpit AI aims to support Christian leaders by simplifying the creation of content the church puts out.

Here are some of the ways he hopes Pulpit AI will revolutionize work at the church:

• Time Savings: Pulpit AI aims to save hours by automating the creation of religious content, freeing up church leaders to focus on other tasks. It helps church media teams get past the initial struggle of starting from a blank page.
• Content Creation: The platform repurposes uploaded sermons or religious podcasts into social media highlights, blog posts, discussion questions and other forms of content. It ensures that theologically solid source material is reflected in the output content.
• Engagement: Allows pastors to maintain a digital connection with their congregations throughout the week and on social media. Offers congregations content to interact with during the week, providing a homegrown alternative to online content from Christian influencers.
• Support for Small and Medium-sized Churches: Particularly beneficial for churches with limited or volunteer staff, providing operational leverage in media and resource creation. Aims to transform every church into a resourcing church for its congregation.
• Technological Advancement: Keeps pastors and church leaders up-to-date with technological advancements without compromising their role in sermon creation. Encourages theological and philosophical discussions about the use of AI in religious contexts.
• Increased Efficiency: Expected to save church staff hours each week, allowing more time for direct interaction with the congregation. Enables churches to be more involved in their congregation’s digital content consumption and spiritual growth.

For some, the practicality of adapting to new technology seems like a no-brainer, but for others, allowing AI into the church is a security risk, a way to allow the secular world to influence the church.

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“Pulpit AI analyzes long form audio and video, then repurposes that into various forms of content,” Whittle says in an interview with Fox News. “Pulpit AI’s output is taken directly from the source material. If the source material is theologically solid, the content Pulpit AI creates will reflect that back.”

Wherever you stand on the spectrum of opinion on this new technology, take the Bible’s advice and pray for wisdom and discernment when unsure about a situation. Read the book of Proverbs and ask God for wisdom in your daily routine and how to navigate this new world that we are entering.

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No matter where in the world a Christian may find themselves, we can expect to encounter attacks from our spiritual enemy who has come to steal, kill and destroy.

This is what believers in the Plateau State of Nigeria are encountering, as some 70 churches from the Church of Christ in Nations denomination, which sports some eight million-plus members across 2,000 churches, have been experiencing for years.

Recently, radical Islamist Fulani herdsman have been attacking churches and villages in the African nation, and some congregations have had to shut down in the wake of the religious violence.

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President of COCIN, the Rev. Amos Mohzo, said a large number of the closures are coming from the counties of Mangu and Bokkos.

“Our members were killed, people were killed, people lost their houses, many traumatized, and we couldn’t do anything,” Pastor Mohzo said in the wake of the Christmas Day attacks in 2023. “We were stranded, but we had to face the challenge, and Christmas was celebrated by displaced Christians in Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) camps in spite of the tragedy.”

• Mangu County saw 40 COCIN churches close. “Most of these members of our church were displaced, and many of them are living in camps outside their communities,” Pastor Mohzo said. “Most of these Christians have been moving here and there trying to survive or find succor.”
• Bokkos has lost approximately 30 churches to the constant attacks. “All our worship church buildings in these communities were burned down by the terrorists,” Pastor Mohzo said. “Internally Displaced Christians from these communities are still living in camps outside their communities. And even now, most of them who are farmers are unable to go to their farms.”

This is not the only part of the nation of millions that is experiencing persecution either, as Christians in the northeast portion of the country have suffered through attacks from Islamic groups such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province.

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“We live together as a community,” Pastor Mohzo said. “However, with the coming of insurgency, the emergence of Boko Haram in Borno state, many of our people have been killed, and others have been driven out and displaced to other areas of Nigeria. Those who have no places to go to had to stay back and make up their minds to die when attacked by the terrorists.”

According to Morning Star News, “Nigeria remained the deadliest place in the world to follow Christ, with 4,118 people killed for their faith from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023, according to Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List report. More kidnappings of Christians than in any other country also took place in Nigeria, with 3,300.”

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In a move continuing the trend of removing anyone opposed Pope Francis’ direction for the Catholic Church, Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has officially been excommunicated after being found guilty of schism.

Perhaps the Pope’s fiercest critic, Vigano has branded the leader of the Catholic Church a “false prophet” and “servant of Satan” while condemning his embrace of left-wing policies.

As Charisma News previously reported, Vigano expected this to be the outcome when he received the summons to the Vatican.

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“I have been summoned to the Palace of the Holy Office on June 20, in person or represented by a canon lawyer,” Vigano wrote.

“I assume that the sentence has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process,” he continues.

Vigano is so fiercely opposed to the Pope and the agenda of his reign, he even refuses to address him as such, and instead uses the Pope’s given name, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, when criticizing him.

“It is no coincidence that the accusation against me concerns the questioning of the legitimacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the rejection of Vatican II: the Council represents the ideological, theological, moral and liturgical cancer of which the Bergoglian ‘synodal church’ is the necessary metastasis,” Vigano wrote in a public statement.

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The Pope has drawn the ire of many conservative and traditionalist Catholics during his tenure. His policies toward divorcees, the LGBTQ+ community, climate change, immigration and his anti-capitalism stance have angered many both in and out of the Catholic Church.

His removal of conservative voices within the Church hasn’t helped his image, either.

Pope Francis also removed Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, a conservative critic of his who claimed that the Pope’s words and actions were “undermining the deposit of faith.”

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A mere week after sexual deviancy marched through the streets of San Francisco, a Jesus March broke out filled with shouts of praise, a worship set and baptisms.

On Saturday, July 6, social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) began filling peoples news feeds of the march, complete with video of the event and the baptisms and salvations that followed the march.

Much of the commentary was provided by Sophia Lorey, Outreach Director CA Family Council according to her X bio.

“Last week they flooded the streets with sexual perversion. We are writing a different story,” she posted.

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There do not appear to be any celebrity leaders specifically attached to the march, just like with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Asbury University last year, but the group “California Will Be Saved” was tagged throughout the slew of posts highlighting the event, while co-leader of the group Ross Johnston posted from the event.

According to the California Will Be Saved site, “Our mission is to bring the message of Salvation to a broken and lost generation in California through worship, prayer, the proclamation of the Gospel, and hosting the Presence of Jesus everywhere we go. If California is saved, the world can be saved.”

That is a bold goal, and one that the state of California desperately needs.

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Marchers were filled with smiles and joy that seemed contagious, as even a trucker held out his Bible which he kept in the cab of his truck as they marched through sections of the city such as the LGBTQ+ stronghold, the Tenderloin District.

As posted by news contributor, author and de-transitioner Oli London, “The group prayed for the salvation of the city, which has seen crime and homelessness skyrocket.”

With more Christians taking a proactive role in bringing the gospel where it is most needed, America may yet stand a chance against the growing darkness in the world. And that is because the hope for every nation doesn’t lay with any politician or political party, but with faith in Jesus Christ and repentant hearts for abandoning the ways of God.

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When guys say that they are thinking about the Roman Empire when they have time to ponder the mysteries of life, this probably isn’t what comes to mind.

During an excavation in the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica, Bulgarian archaeologists discovered an unexpected treasure: a well-preserved marble statue of the Greek god Hermes.

The statue was uncovered in the remains of an ancient Roman sewer system. This remarkable find was made close to the Greek border in southwestern Bulgaria, an area rich in history and archaeological significance.

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Lyudmil Vagalinski, the lead archaeologist, explained the statue’s pristine condition. “Its head is preserved. [It’s in a] very good condition. There are a few fractures on the hands,” Vagalinski stated, noting that the statue is a Roman copy of an ancient Greek original.

Heraclea Sintica, founded between 356 B.C. and 339 B.C. by Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great, was a prominent city in the region now known as Pirin Macedonia. An earthquake in A.D. 388 caused significant damage to the city, leading its inhabitants to carefully place the Hermes statue in the sewer and cover it with soil, effectively preserving it for centuries.

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This statue’s preservation highlights a cultural transition in the city. Although Heraclea Sintica’s residents adopted Christianity following its establishment as the official religion of the Roman Empire, they still sought to preserve elements of their pagan past.

“Everything pagan was forbidden, and they have joined the new ideology, but apparently they took care of their old deities,” Vagalinski explains.

The city experienced a rapid decline following the earthquake and was ultimately abandoned around A.D. 500. The discovery of this statue provides a fascinating glimpse into the cultural and religious dynamics of the time.

This discovery reminds us of the singular truth proclaimed in the Bible: there is only one true God. As stated in Isaiah 45:5, “I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me.”

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In the midst of citizens of New York City dealing with daily crime, inflation and hopelessness, the Lord still showed up to remind His people that there is hope, joy and purpose to be found in His presence.

The event, called Adora America, saw thousands descend on Madison Square Garden to pray and worship the Lord together.

This initiative led by the Latino church in NYC was a multi-ethnic gathering divinely designed to break the spirit of poverty over the Spanish-speaking church in America. The founder , Carlos Jimenez, operated in an extraordinary gift of faith, believing God for financial provision and was able to pay off Madison Square Garden two days before the event.

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Such a task is no small feat as the cost for renting MSG is astronomical, but through faith, over half a million dollars was raised to rent the Garden.

Some of the leaders involved include Joseph Mattera, A.R. Bernard, Ben Paz and Carlos Jimenez, who all shared great grace with clarity, authority and vision that imparted faith and passion for God to the church.

“We trust this kairos moment will be a catalyst for greater unity and cooperation in the city and beyond among key leaders, pastors and churches,” Mattera wrote.

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According to their websites, Adora America “seeks to bring the body of Christ together for a time of prayer and worship” at each of their events.

“We believe that for God to establish a permanent increase of His presence and purpose in a region, the sons of God must come together in one place and one accord. (Acts 1:14) Adora America serves as a catalyst for this unity by leading the church to lift up an altar of worship and prayer in the city and mobilizing them for coordinated evangelism.

“Adora America looks to collaborate with God in connecting the church of the Lord Jesus Christ in a region, so that we might preach the gospel and flood the earth with the message of the kingdom of God as one,” their statement continues.

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From shouting “Death to America” to now declaring “God Bless America,” the testimony of Hormoz Shariat is one that shines with the transformative power of Jesus Christ.

Born in Iran but becoming a dual citizen in America for his studies, Shariat has passionately expressed the misconceptions many are trying to spread regarding the United States and her role on the world stage.

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In a recent op-ed for Fox News, Shariat lists the many reasons he went from demanding the extermination of the United States, to loving and appreciating the freedom offered within her borders:

• America is the land of religious freedom: “By putting my faith in Christ, my life was transformed. My troubled marriage was healed; my wife and I canceled our plans for divorce, and a new future unfolded for us here because of the religious freedom afforded.”
• America is the land of opportunity: “Here in America, you can dream and work to make your dreams come true. This country gave me an opportunity and provided support to pursue my educational dream.”
• America allowed him to serve the oppressed: “Because of the generous support of Americans to our ministry, more than 100,000 Iranian Muslims have come to faith in Jesus Christ.”
• America has a history of helping the world: “When a disaster strikes anywhere in the world—even in Islamic countries such as Iran—Americans and especially American Christians have always been the first to respond by sending people and money to aid victims.”

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These reasons, and more, showcase why a man who had only heard bad things about the world’s foremost superpower would radically change his stance once he experienced living in America firsthand. He suffered through true oppression, something most Americans know little to nothing about.

Yet Shariat continues to point to the true reason for the blessing that has encapsulated America throughout her brief yet impactful history: the faith of her citizens in the one, true God and in His Son, Jesus Christ. For without this faith in our Creator, there is no hope for the country.

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