The testimony of an Assyrian community in Iraqi Kurdistan forever changed the trajectory of my own faith, forcing me to reexamine what it meant to be Christian.

Each week in The Christian Citizen, we publish a Religion News Roundup with summaries of religion news stories and links for those who want to read more.

War has become a spectator sport. We watch war as if it were another movie or television series. The line between fantasy and reality has been lost in the new televised, digital world. America needs a war rehab program to help us break our addiction.

Real disruption — the Gospel kind — doesn’t invite chaos. It offers clarity. It invites the opportunity to step back and evaluate the situation.

If studying the Divine is a gift, and if we are living in a moment when God’s truth, love, justice, kingdom, and grace are being co-opted, then we must speak the truth. We owe it to our congregations, neighbors, our global Christian witness, and personal faith.