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On Wednesday morning, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi shared that the airstrike killed a team of international workers from World Central Kitchen (WCK) during their return from an aid delivery in Gaza.

Are you worried that we are moving closer to World War III? If you're not, should you be?

I have no way to know if this deadly attack will lead to greater escalation in the region and even a world war involving the US and Iran. But I do know that nothing that happens next will surprise the omniscient Lord of the universe or deter his omnipotent power and sovereign purposes in our world.

The possibility of the United States going to war with Iran has become more likely. On Sunday, President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. would decide when and where a retaliation would take place.

Experts and leaders in the Middle East are growing increasingly concerned about a second war breaking out in Israel along the Lebanese border following a series of deadly clashes between the terrorist group Hezbollah and Israel’s military.

Russell Moore, editor-in-chief at Christianity Today, wrote in a column encouraging Americans to “recognize Israel’s right and duty to defend itself.”

As unexpected as it was that the Barbie movie would spark such a widespread and intense cultural conversation, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, a film about the brilliant and broken man who became the father of the atomic bomb, has too. The film tells the story of the man who gave the world the power to destroy itself, or as Oppenheimer famously put it, “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”

Atomic weapons have been a constant source of debate since their initial use to end the war against Japan in 1945. At the time, Christians had a dual reaction. On one hand, many breathed a sigh of relief that the long war was over, that the boys would come home, and that there would be no further repeats of the devastation seen at places like Iwo Jima and Okinawa, where Japanese resistance was so fanatical that they fought almost to the last man. On the other hand, Christians shared the widespread sense that a deadly Pandora’s Box had been opened and that there was no way to go back to a world before “the Bomb.”

"And that takes several forms. The first one is, what do we think we're allowed to let AI [do]? The second one is how do we know how the algorithm made decisions? And do we trust it? And the third one is, at what point are we ready to let the algorithm start doing some things on its own that maybe we are or aren't comfortable with?" he said.

Global Christian Relief contact in South Sudan, Kafeel Amani, recently opened up to Christian Headlines about the challenges of living in South Sudan. Amani’s name has been changed for security reasons.

For many years, my Israeli friends have taught me the importance of resilience as they refuse to allow threats of violence to change their lives. They take shelter when necessary, but they choose not to live in fear because this gives the “terrorists” (“those who cause terror”) what they want.

When violence does strike, they return to normal as quickly as possible. While Americans might turn the site of a terrorist attack into a memorial to those who died, Israelis typically do not. They do not want to memorialize the crime, believing that they pay tribute to their dead by living well. I witnessed such courage in Israel last week.