Daily Bread, Jailed Israeli Soldiers, Crumbling Ceasefire

This week, Chris and Steve open with a laugh — Steve’s attempt at Jewish meditation is going about as well as you’d expect, and a joke about letting others finish their sentences sets the tone for a lively episode. Then we turn to a sobering story about religious freedom. A 78-year-old retired pastor in Northern Ireland was convicted and fined for preaching John 3:16 near a hospital in a so-called “restricted area.” It’s a reminder that the freedom to share the gospel is increasingly under pressure in the Western world.