Wherever you live in the world, the question is no longer whether climate change is making the earth hotter. The question is: What does a hotter planet actually look like? The summer of 2026 is giving us some sobering answers. Around the world, we have seen record temperatures, deadly heat waves, stressed electrical grids, shrinking rivers, increased wildfire danger, and growing threats to agriculture and human health. What we are experiencing is not simply a collection of isolated hot days....

I am grateful to Pope Leo XIV for his first encyclical which addresses the faith and moral issues of AI and its subsequent impact on the sharing of the world’s water resources. His encyclical is entitled Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. In this letter to the world, he is asking us to uphold the dignity of the human person in our development and decisions about AI. He is declaring this is a moral issue as much as it is an economic...

I am a conservative because I believe in conserving sacred spaces. One of those places is Yellowstone National Park, a sacred place I visited this past week. While many of you were worshipping inside man-made sanctuaries, I was worshipping in the sacred temple created by God in the lower Montana and upper Wyoming region. There I watched a geyser spew near-boiling water 130 feet into the air at almost the exact minute the park geologists predicted. I drove my car close enough to a black bear...