Jeffrey R. Holland, longtime senior leader and next in line to lead The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has died at age 85 from complications of kidney disease, marking a major transition for the church’s leadership.

TikTok is building a new app specifically for U.S. users (or a version) that will run on a “recreated” content-recommendation algorithm, licensed from ByteDance, but rebuilt by U.S.-based engineers to meet national security concerns.

In an era that prizes autonomy above all else, where tradition is treated with suspicion and truth is seen as relative, the Christian woman finds herself walking against the tide. She is neither a relic nor a reactionary—but a living contradiction to the dominant cultural script.

From Ezekiel to Tehran, the end-times stage is expanding—linking Iran’s apocalyptic role with Russia, the AI arms race, and the digital scaffolding of prophetic control.

Among evangelicals, libertarians, and post-pandemic skeptics, the “Beast System” has become a metaphor for everything: inflation, AI, censorship, and even ESG policies. And it’s not just religious. Many adherents no longer identify with churches but find spiritual fuel in online communities that function more like digital monasteries than forums.

After months of travel, interviews, and archival research in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Tel Aviv, Gaza, and Amman, what emerged was not just a timeline of events—but a living, breathing narrative of two peoples trapped in a cycle of mutual memory, sacred land, and irreconcilable grief.

In an age where labels are easily claimed but less frequently lived out, the term "Christian" has become more of an identifier than a lifestyle.