(Worthy Insights) – The exodus from the Golden State continues. The movement gained publicity when Hollywood celebrities, such as Candace Cameron Bure, Andy MacDowell, and Ali Lauter, started fleeing the hustle and bustle of Hollywood for a quieter life. Last year, the president of In-N-Out Burger also made headlines by exiting the state. Now, California’s top 1% of wealthiest people are leaving the state for a different reason – a looming wealth tax that threatens to hit them hard.

Larry Page, Google co-founder and the world’s second-richest person, has reportedly left California due to his concerns about a proposed tax law that aims to impose a one-time five percent tax on the assets of California residents worth more than a billion.

According to the Detroit News, Page and his co-founder Sergey Brin quickly transferred the entities they control to other states in late December. And they are not the only ones. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – More than 7,000 college students and others recently gathered in Phoenix, Arizona, for Urbana 25 – Intervarsity’s 27th student missions conference. By the end of the five-day gathering, 800 people made decisions to follow Jesus, and many others solidified their commitment to spreading the Gospel throughout the ends of the earth.

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship USA kicked off the event in late December, and attendees were challenged to think outside the box when sharing the Gospel.

“How do we live into the imagination God has given us to take the gospel into the world?” Executive Director Mark Matlock asked the audience on the first night of the conference. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A Southern Baptist church in Washington, D.C., says it has seen a 2,000% growth in attendance over the last seven years, a trend that the congregation’s leaders attribute mostly to Generation Z and millennials gradually returning to religious life after the COVID-19 lockdowns and, more recently, the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk.

After a period of stagnant growth in its first few years, the King’s Church now has nearly 600 members, according to Ben Palka, one of the church’s three pastors who also helped establish the church in the nation’s capital in 2018.

“We just had a lot of grit, a lot of God’s grace the first couple of years to endure the storm,” Palka said. “And then during COVID, we decided to stay open, and the Lord really blessed that time. We grew. It felt like every month we doubled.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A Polymarket account, which has sparked rumors of insider information after successfully gambling on Israeli and US military operations over the last six months, placed a new, high stakes wager on war with Iran by month’s end.

The account, now renamed Rundeep, joined the current-events-based gambling website in June 2025 and has racked up over $154,219 while wagering exclusively on Israeli and US military actions.

The biggest win came on June 13 — days after the account was made — with Rundeep making more than $128,700 betting that Israel would take military action against Iran. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Each December, as holiday decorations go up and familiar music fills the air, another relatively new holiday ritual returns with equal predictability — social media fills with declarations that “Jesus was a Palestinian,” often joined by the equally fictional assertion that he was a “Palestinian refugee.”

These claims appear every Christmas season as reliably as ornaments and carols, as though the propagandists believe that repeating the lies might someday transform fiction into fact.

But this isn’t just a harmless anachronism — like depicting Moses checking Google Maps while wandering in the Sinai. It is part of a longstanding effort to erase Jews from their own history, an effort that has resurfaced in recent years precisely because it is politically useful. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Elle Bisgaard-Church, who will now be known as “the powerful woman behind Mamdani,” New York’s incoming mayor, is not just another political adviser.

Bisgaard-Church, just 34, is a radical activist with deep ties to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) – a movement known for its consistently anti-Israel stance, including support for boycotts of Israel and calls to halt US security assistance to Jerusalem.

A graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University, Bisgaard-Church was previously active in anti-war movements and expressed support for what she termed “nonviolent anti-Israel activism,” echoing the rhetoric of her political ally Mamdani. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Popular podcast host Tucker Carlson sat down with fellow podcaster Nick Fuentes on Tuesday, and the two, who are known for their hostility to Jews and Israel, discussed both topics, along with foreign policy issues and theology. During the course of their discussion, Carlson blasted pro-Israel Christian Zionists, revealing that he dislikes them “more than anybody.”

Carlson, the former Fox News host who invited Fuentes on his podcast, named U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and other non-Jewish Republicans among those who believe in Christian Zionism, which he called a church “heresy.” He added that those who believe in it are “seized with some kind of brain virus,” and said, “I am offended by that as a Christian.”

Huckabee responded in a post on X, writing, “Wasn’t aware that Tucker despises me. I do get that a lot from people not familiar with the Bible or history. Somehow, I will survive the animosity.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Sen. Chuck Grassley revealed Wednesday that former President Joe Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) compiled what’s being described as an “enemies list” of Republicans to target, including through wiretapping the phones of several high-ranking Republicans as part of their “get-Trump” lawfare.

Grassley revealed more than 1,700 pages of documents provided by whistleblowers, shining further light on the “Arctic-Frost” inquiry. Arctic Frost was an investigation led by the Biden administration to, as The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland explained, “target Republicans in key battleground states.” Then FBI Director Christopher Wray sent a memorandum to then-Attorney General Merrick Garland claiming that “fraudulent certificates of electors’ votes were submitted to the Archivist of the United States” for Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin. Wray also asserted that these votes were part of a grand conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election.

Jack Smith relied on this investigation as the basis for his anti-Trump lawfare, through which he attempted to both put the then-former president in jail and spy on the entire Republican political apparatus. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – One of the largest evangelical college campus ministries in the country is seeing the Spirit of God moving among Greek Life students. Leaders say they are seeing a surge in the number of fraternity and sorority members walking away from their party lifestyle and “being radically transformed” by Jesus.

Greek InterVarsity is reporting significant developments in their efforts to reach members of fraternities and sororities on college campuses. Their vision: “Every Greek is one friend away from Jesus.”

The ministry is teaching students how to lead Bible studies in their fraternity and sorority chapters. On many campuses, Greek InterVarsity offers a weekly gathering for students from all Greek chapters and councils to come together for worship and fellowship. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Consistent polling shows trust in America continues to fade – in government, institutions, even religion. Yet one new report finds that many still turn to the Bible, even as others question its relevance in modern life.

For more than a decade, the American Bible Society has asked Americans each year about their relationship with scripture – asking who reads it, what they believe, and why it matters. The latest findings reveal a nation deeply divided over faith and trust.

Only 36% of Americans believe the Bible is totally accurate, while 39% say it is not. Nearly 1 in 5 people see the Bible as a tool written to control or manipulate people. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The Museum of the Bible will host the National Prayer Altar this Thursday, Oct. 30th, at 6 p.m. This event brings Americans together in-person and online. Its goal is to unite the U.S. church and bring healing to a divided country.

Pastors James and Sharon Ward lead the effort, which began in 2020. Prayer leaders at this year’s event include faith leaders Lisa Brunson, Phil Cappuccio, Brannon Carnes, Gary Hamrick, Barry and Heather Moore, Gordon Robertson, Tony Suarez, and Hannah C. Ward.

“At this year’s National Prayer Altar, we are calling every American to boldly declare our nation’s official motto, ‘In God we trust,'” said James Ward. “We’re calling every American to join us in praying for our nation to humbly return to our rightful place under God.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – In the last two years, the number of college students who identify as transgender has dramatically diminished, according to a report called The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans.

Writing for the Centre for Heterodox Social Science, Canadian professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, Eric Kaufmann, analyzed several surveys, including one conducted by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which questioned over 50,000 undergraduates from more than 250 American colleges.

Kaufmann told CBN News that more American college students see themselves as heterosexual now than in recent years. He said the number of people identifying as trans, or non-binary, which he says are identities that are so similar that differentiating between the two is like “splitting hairs,” first began rising in 2010 and continued upward until 2023, when it peaked. Since then, he reports, it has dropped by about half, from nearly seven percent to under four percent. He adds, college freshmen are a lot less likely than seniors to identify as trans. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Federal immigration agents are facing serious threats ranging from angry mobs to drug cartel bounties as tensions mount over the nationwide crackdown on migrants who entered the U.S. illegally.

An incident in Chicago made headlines after it escalated into a clash between ICE agents and local residents on Tuesday.

It started with a car chase through a Chicago neighborhood that ended in a crash and a riot. ICE agents say the driver was an immigrant in the U.S. illegally who was trying to flee arrest. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – More and more Gen Z-ers on college campuses are turning to Jesus, and now the wave of spiritual awakening has even reached a North Carolina fraternity house at one of the country’s top party schools.

It’s definitely not your typical place for a night of prayer and worship, but during a recent gathering called the “Night of Hope,” many young people on campus decided to give their lives to Christ. Instead of partying and getting drunk together, scores of young students recently came at East Carolina University’s Kappa Sigma House to listen intently to the Gospel.

Evangelist Doug Elks explained some key Bible verses to the group: “John 3:16, ‘For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son so that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life.’ Romans 5:8, ‘God demonstrates His love in this, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.'” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Hundreds of people are testifying that a faith-based leadership and business event is changing their lives at a time when they need it most.

As CBN News has reported, Life Surge gathers thousands of people from around the country to give them practical tools to live out their eternal purpose in their daily lives and careers.

People attend the one-day conference to be trained and equipped for marketplace ministry, but hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of attendees, are giving their lives to Jesus in what organizers are calling “a move of God.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The battle to keep sexually explicit books out of the hands of children has been given a big boost by a federal judge.

The judge ruled that Florida’s Escambia County School Board could remove a penguin-themed children’s book depicting “same-sex marriage” from its libraries and that such action does not violate the First Amendment.

The school board made the decision to remove the book, “And Tango Makes Three,” which follows two male penguins who adopt, hatch, and raise Tango, a penguin chick at New York’s Central Park Zoo. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – As the war between Israel and Hamas hits the two-year mark, Israeli leaders have quietly launched a more peaceful offensive on the public relations front.

It is based on the adage that “all politics is local.” Israel has breathed new life into that chiefly American political proverb with the launch of its latest venture.

While touting the strong partnership between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli officials are now turning their focus toward vital relations at the state level. [ Source (Read More…) ]