Jose Angel Zelaya has been charged with involuntary manslaughter for a high-speed collision that led to the death of a pastor's teenage daughter. Authorities report the Burke, Va., man was driving nearly double the speed limit when the accident occurred. Seventeen-year-old Rebekah "Bekah" Zarco was pronounced dead at the scene; three other teens were critically injured. Read more.

Brent Seaman of Naples, Fla., has been charged with orchestrating a $35 million Ponzi scheme that targeted elderly individuals at a church where Seaman was an active member. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission is classifying the crime as an example of affinity fraud, a scheme where fraudsters use authentic or pretend group membership to convince members "to trust them with the group's hard-earned savings." Read more.

In this op-ed, Dr. Michael Brown discusses the challenges of depicting Christ in artistic form. While such depictions provide the opportunity to identify with Christ, there are negative implications as well. "What we must take hold of is that He transcends Blackness or Whiteness (or any ethnicity or color)," writes Brown. Read more.

Professor Carl R. Trueman reacts to a recent essay from Triggernometry podcast host Konstantin Kisin where Kisin admits to identifying as a "lapsed atheist," questioning whether the most fundamental aspects of what it means to be human are possible within an atheist framework. "What is emerging among some erstwhile left-wing intellectuals today is the realization that atheism, while an interesting theoretical position, offers nothing to address the deeper questions of life," writes Trueman. Read more.

Summer fun is in full effect! For many people, summer means extra time for travel, swimming, and recreation. But injuries and accidents can turn summertime into bummer-time faster than you can say "popsicle sticks." Read More

Resurrection South Austin Church, a Texas-based congregation that began as an Anglican Church in North America church plant, has voted to leave ACNA for The Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Diocese of Texas said the church did a "thorough examination of its own convictions around a variety of concerns, including [ACNA's] prohibitions against women in the episcopate and the full inclusion of LGBTQIA+ in the church." Read more.

Grammy Award-winning singer Lauren Daigle is pushing back against critics of the anti-trafficking film "Sound of Freedom." The singer took to Instagram live the morning after watching the hit film to call out naysayers, asserting, "One thing I found very interesting is that people are having to defend this movie. This is insane to me that this would even be something that needs to be defended." Read more.

During an interview with CP, Grammy Award-winning artist Lecrae opened up about how a book written by the late Evangelical pastor Tim Keller saved his life during one of his "darkest seasons." The artist explained, "[A]s I'm reading Prodigal Prophet, a story of Jonah and a giant fish, I see this massive whale come up out of the ocean and come back down, and the water had been coming from its spout. It was almost as if God was just saying, 'I'm here. I'm with you.'" Watch the full interview now.