It’s Monday, August 25th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
2 arrested in Illinois church arson
Authorities in southern Illinois, responding to a call on July 24, have arrested two men in connection with the arson and vandalism of McKinney Chapel Freewill Baptist Church in the town of Marion, reports International Christian Concern.
Damage estimates to the property are expected to exceed $300,000.
Ethan Lam, arrested on July 30, and Chad Krueger, arrested on August 14, were both charged with place of worship arson and criminal damage to property.
Attacks on American churches throughout the nation appear to be more prevalent in recent years.
Romans 1:29-30 says, “They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are … God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents.”
Kamala Harris’ disastrous appearance on CBS’ Late Show
Former Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert last month promoting her new book entitled 107 Days, reports Newsbusters.org.
It was a disaster.
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, tweeted, “Colbert lost CBS $40 million dollars a year because not enough people watched, so CBS canceled it. Kamala cost her donors $2 billion dollars in 107 days and she lost in an electoral landslide. America rejected both of them, so now they’re blaming America. Look in the mirror!”
Take a listen to Stephen Colbert who makes wildly inaccurate claims about the national American mood and Trump’s second term. It’s followed by another characteristic “word salad” by Kamala Harris that doesn’t make a lick of sense.
Listen.
COLBERT: “The national mood is so grim in many ways. And people are so shocked by the abuses and the abhorrent corruption …”
HARRIS: “Yep.”
COLBERT: “and the violence against neighbors happening in the United States …”
HARRIS: “Yeah. Understandable.”
COLBERT: “by our government …”
HARRIS: “Yeah.”
COLBERT: “and the free reign being given by Congress and the Supreme Court to this President, …”
HARRIS: “Yeah.”
COLBERT: “that just, less than a year ago, things were very joyful. There was, there was actually a lot of hope associated with your campaign, and there was a lot, there was a lot of promise that we might actually not only keep this absolute barbarian out of the White House …”
HARRIS: “Yeah.”
COLBERT: “but also we might actually make progress as, as a country with the type of people that we wanted to see in office, and a younger, more vital …”
HARRIS: “Yeah.”
COLBERT: “revived political consciousness in America. What do you think of when you look back at that, that time and that feeling?”
HARRIS: “What I look back at is, as I said, how people realized the commonality and the collective strength and our collective love of our country. We love our country. And the thing about that experience is exactly what propels me to think about this moment and the future and not look back too much, which is: those same people, they’re still here.”
For the men of the late night comedy talk shows, the first half of 2025 was an instance of history repeating itself. According to a NewsBusters study, 99 percent of their political guests were on the Left, matching the result for the last six months of 2024.
Black pastor rejoices that Black Entertainment suspended its Hip Hop awards show
Pastor John Amanchukwu said that revival may be burgeoning in the black community, and that he believes interest is waning in what he described as the debauchery afflicting much of black pop culture in recent decades, reports The Christian Post.
Amanchukwu, an author and preacher from North Carolina who wrote the 2022 book Eraced: Uncovering the Lies of Critical Race Theory and Abortion, also suggested the Left has done much to alienate many black men, a trend he claimed manifested during the 2024 presidential election.
Amanchukwu, who was formerly a football player for North Carolina University, recently spoke out on his podcast in favor of the decision of Black Entertainment Television (BET) indefinitely suspending its Hip Hop Awards and Soul Train Awards after 38 years. The 2025 BET Awards in June saw a significant drop among the key 18-49 demographic, cratering by almost 50% from the 2024 ceremony, according to TV Ratings Guide.
AMANCHUKWU: “BET suspending these award shows isn’t a cultural tragedy. It’s a long overdue mercy killing.
“These ceremonies became annual worship services for filth, degrading women, and the men allowed the women to be exploited.”
Proverbs 11:22 says, “Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.”
AMANCHUKWU: “It glorified violence and celebrat[ed] ghetto dysfunction. That is the culture that they’re trying to push upon blacks.
“To see that these award shows are going away, that is a good sign for black America. It means that not enough minorities are tuning in because they have become disinterested. That is a good thing.”
Purposeful vacation in Branson, Missouri this fall
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Speakers include Robert Bortins, CEO of Classical Conversations, Israel Wayne, father of 11 and author of Raising Them Up: Parenting for Christians, Dr. Jim Orrick, the author of Mere Calvinism and Seven Thoughts Every Christian Ought to Think Every Day, and Rebecca Robinette, whose father and brothers tragically died in a house fire, who oversees Mission to Myanmar.
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Cracker Barrel’s woke rebranding cost the chain almost $100 million
And finally, Cracker Barrel, a restaurant and gift store chain with a Southern country theme, lost almost $100 million in market value last Thursday after its stock plunged following the release of a new, sanitized logo, reports CBS News. It was founded in 1969 and today operates 660 locations across America.
The new design eliminates a longstanding drawing of an overall-clad man leaning against a barrel, in favor of a cleaner logo featuring just the chain’s name. The man and barrel in the old logo represented “the old country store experience where folks would gather around and share stories.”
According to Cracker Barrel’s own website, the man they eliminated from the logo is based on Uncle Herschel McCartney, the real uncle of Cracker Barrel founder Dan Evins.
Ken Blackwell with the Family Research Council wrote, “He wasn’t a corporate mascot; he was family. His values inspired the restaurant’s entire culture, and they even named a breakfast plate after him. Now, Cracker Barrel’s corporate leadership has erased him. The logo has been stripped down into bland, soulless minimalism in the name of ‘modernization.’ But let’s be honest: this isn’t modernization. It’s the same tired playbook we’ve seen from Bud Light, Target, and Disney … sacrificing tradition to appease activists who never even eat there. And the result is always the same: go woke, go broke.”
Shares of Cracker Barrel fell $4.22, or 7.2%, to $54.80 per share in Thursday trading, shedding $94 million in market value. The stock had dipped to a low of $50.27 earlier in the day, representing a loss of almost $200 million in its capitalization.
However, it’s not just about the logo redesign, but the new menu items and redecorated stores that eschew the chain’s old-timey approach in favor of a more modern taste and look.
Some suggest that the woke changes are connected to the fact that the BlackRock Investment Firm holds 3,317,812 shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, which represents 14.9% of the company’s outstanding shares. This substantial stake indicates that BlackRock is indeed a major institutional investor in Cracker Barrel, though not necessarily a controlling one.
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