A Voice From the Wilderness
A Christian response to today’s news and the issues that matter most.
“The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” — Matthew 3:3
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Chinese Pastor Ezra Jin Freed, Lands in US After Trump PleaPastor Ezra Jin, held in China since October, arrived in Los Angeles July 4 after Trump raised his case with Xi; 8 Zion Church leaders remain jailed.
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Ethiopian Teen Faces Death Threats After Converting to ChristA 15-year-old Ethiopian girl, Indii Mikaa'el, faces death threats from her own family after leaving Islam to follow Jesus in June 2025.
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SSPX Consecrates Four Bishops, Faces Vatican ExcommunicationTraditionalist Society of St. Pius X consecrated four bishops without papal approval on July 1, prompting Vatican excommunication decrees.
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St. Paul Protesters Seek Dismissal of Church ChargesDefendants who disrupted a St. Paul church's Sunday service in January ask a federal judge to drop charges under the FACE Act.
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Kerr County Unveils Memorial Cross One Year After Deadly FloodKerrville dedicates a 20-foot steel cross as Texas Hill Country marks one year since a flood killed 139, including 27 at Camp Mystic.
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Religious Liberty Commission Delivers Draft Report to TrumpThe DOJ's Religious Liberty Commission, chaired by Dan Patrick, delivered a 224-page draft report June 26, open for public comment until July 13.
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Every article here is a Christian response to today’s news — the headlines, the controversies, the questions ordinary people are asking. This is not a noisy place. It is a quiet place that says hard things plainly. Lone Trumpet exists to encourage the faithful, to challenge the comfortable, and to invite the seeker — without apology and without compromise on matters of faith, but with the patience and the kindness that the gospel itself requires.
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