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1) MLB Warns Three Giants Pitchers for Writing Bible Verses on Pride Night Caps

During the San Francisco Giants’ pride night game against the Chicago Cubs on June 12, three Giants pitchers wrote Bible verses on their rainbow-colored pride caps. Starting pitcher Landen Roupp inscribed Genesis 9:12–16, the passage in which God establishes the rainbow as the sign of His covenant with all creation. Relievers J.T. Brubaker and Ryan Walker also wrote Bible verses on their caps. A fourth pitcher, Sam Hentges, declined to wear the pride cap altogether and played in the team’s standard black cap. Major League Baseball issued a formal warning to all three players who wrote on their caps, with chief communications officer Pat Courtney stating that the writing violated league uniform rules.

Roupp defended his decision after the game, saying it was about what he believes in and that he is thankful to live in a country where people have the freedom to express what they believe. Clayton Kershaw inscribed the same Genesis passage on his cap during a Dodgers pride night the previous season. The same league that issued these warnings required players to wear the pride caps in the first place. MLB pulled the All-Star Game out of Georgia in 2021 following political pressure over the state’s election integrity law, a decision that cost Atlanta an estimated $100 million in economic activity. Whether the league would warn players for writing a different kind of message on a uniform remains an open question its leadership has not addressed. Read the full story at OutKick →

Scripture: “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” — Genesis 9:13

2) Louisiana Baby Born at One Pound After Her Father Secretly Gave Her Mother Abortion Drugs

Jamelle Kelly, 39, of Carencro, Louisiana has been charged with attempted first-degree feticide and domestic abuse battery of a pregnant victim after police say he gave abortion drugs to his own 17-year-old daughter without her knowledge. The Carencro Police Department began investigating on May 29 after learning the teenager had been given the drugs covertly. She became seriously ill and required an emergency cesarean surgery. Her baby was delivered at 23 weeks gestation, weighing approximately one pound. As of the date the charges were made public, June 12, the infant remained alive in the NICU and is expected to require extended medical care. Kelly was charged with two felonies and was released on bail after four days in custody.

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill responded to the case, calling it proof of the dangers tied to mifepristone and its unchecked distribution. Louisiana classifies mifepristone as a controlled dangerous substance, but the FDA’s mail-order abortion policy has made it possible to obtain the drug through the mail even in states where it is restricted. Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician by training, stated plainly that men should not be able to obtain this drug and coerce women into abortions, and called on the FDA to immediately reinstate the in-person visit requirement. This case is not an isolated incident. The ready availability of abortion drugs through the mail has made coerced chemical abortion easier to carry out, and the victims are overwhelmingly women and girls. Read the full story at LifeNews →

Scripture: “Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the poor and needy.” — Proverbs 31:8–9

3) New York Mayor Mamdani Joins Bernie Sanders to Push the Democratic Party Further Left Ahead of Tuesday’s Primary

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who took office January 1, 2026 as the city’s first Muslim mayor and an avowed member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is teaming with Senator Bernie Sanders this week ahead of Tuesday’s New York primary elections. Mamdani has endorsed candidates running against Democratic incumbents in three congressional districts, including a challenger to Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and former City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is running against incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman. The goal, according to Sanders’ senior adviser Faiz Shakir, is to radically change the Democratic Party from within. Shakir said Sanders mentions Mamdani in nearly every speech on his national tour ahead of the midterms.

Mamdani has used his first six months in office to make New York City a sanctuary city for illegal immigration, to oppose cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, and to call for the abolition of ICE. He has accused Israel of genocide, said he would have Prime Minister Netanyahu arrested if he set foot in the city, declined to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” before ultimately walking it back under pressure, and has been a vocal advocate for the LGBT agenda. He is now being cited by Sanders and others as a model for the direction of the Democratic Party nationally. The Republican National Congressional Committee described his brand of socialism as toxic, but Sanders’ team welcomed the comparison. Christians across the country should understand what this political movement believes, what it intends to do, and how it views them. Read the full story at the Associated Press →

Scripture: “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.” — Proverbs 29:2

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Proverbs 31:8–9 is addressed to a king, to someone with the authority and the platform to speak and to act. The instruction is direct: use it. Speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. Judge cases fairly. Defend those who have no one to defend them. The baby in the NICU in Louisiana cannot speak for herself. Her mother, a 17-year-old girl who was poisoned by her own father, needed someone in authority to speak on her behalf, and Louisiana’s attorney general did. The three pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their caps were speaking, quietly and at professional risk, for the truth that the rainbow belongs to God and not to any political movement. The Christians in New York City who are watching their city be governed by someone who holds their values in contempt need the Church to be honest about what is happening, not to retreat into silence for the sake of being seen as polite.

Opening your mouth is not always dramatic. Sometimes it is a pitcher writing a reference on a hat. Sometimes it is an attorney general posting a statement. Sometimes it is a senator calling for a policy change. Sometimes it is a newsletter naming what is true. The command does not specify the platform. It specifies the obligation. The destitute, the mute, and the needy are present in every one of today’s stories. The question the verse puts to us is whether we will open our mouths on their behalf.

Father, we pray for the baby in the NICU in Louisiana and for her mother, who was betrayed by someone who was supposed to protect her. We pray for Landen Roupp, J.T. Brubaker, Ryan Walker, and Sam Hentges, and we ask that You would reward their quiet faithfulness. We pray for the people of New York City and for the Christians living there, that the Church would be a steady, truthful presence in a city being pulled hard in a different direction. Give us the wisdom to know when to speak and the courage to actually do it. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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