This week's news cycle contained some strange, some troubling, and even some bizarre stories,

including a tragic story of a 12-year-old girl who died in a schoolyard fight, a man from Kenya

who was caught trying to smuggle 2,000 ants, designer trendy ants, and sell them to bougy Asian collectors who wanted them as exotic pets.

There's more revelations from the Edstein files indicting certain people calling into question

the elites power and their accountability or lack thereof.

But the one story that rises to the top in my mind

and probably in yours is the increasing and ongoing conflict between the United States and Israel

and Iran. Watch this. Over night, Iran focused its attacks on the lifeblood of the region small boats packed with

explosives slamming into these oil tankers off the coast of iraq in barrain fuel depots burned

the barraini government warning people to stay indoors to avoid inhaling poisonous fumes.

Critical energy sites in Oman were also targeted.

An Iranian drone filmed dive bombing into a storage facility in a direct hit.

Also under fire, the Gulf's commercial infrastructure,

as another luxury high-rise in Dubai is struck by a drone.

While many stories can create outrage or curiosity, war creates real consequences.

Consequences not just for governments, but for families like yours and mine, and not

just families in America, but also the families in Iran and the families in Israel and the Iranian

American and Israeli American families who have relatives in these places. And so while the news often talks about

war in terms of militaries and armies and governments, where it's felt perhaps most deeply is going

to be at my own kitchen table and yours. It's going to be in our own living rooms. So I want to

talk about what's happening and I want to talk about how we as the family

of faith ought to respond. So here's a quick recap. On February 28th, the U.S. and Israel launched

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