“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…” —Romans 12:2
The headlines are not neutral; they are liturgies shaping hearts, so guard your mind and pray Christ renews your sight. —D.
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News—what it should be, what it once was—is now buried beneath a mountain of tricks and traders. A teaspoon of truth drowned in a pound of noise. Paul Craig Roberts calls it the “presstitute,” and he’s not far off. The media no longer enlightens; it deranges. It feeds us secondhand rage and teaches us to hunger after images, enemies, and phantoms. It does not report truth, it trains the soul to obey lies dressed as warnings. It whispers of war with one breath and sells us comfort with the next. The result? A mind bent toward suspicion, a heart numbed to real sorrow, a soul made hollow by spectacle.
Behind the headlines, there’s a hand at work. Not just propaganda, but priestcraft of a darker liturgy. A script, designed to teach you who to hate, when to fear, and how to kneel before power without even noticing the bow. They say they’re informing you, but they’re shaping you, assigning the villains, giving you the chant, setting the pitchfork in your hands. And how gracious they are in doing it. They spare you the burden of seeking truth or bearing responsibility. They teach you to trust the voice in the screen more than the voice in your soul, the Word of God, or the pain of your neighbor. All so you can feel righteous without ever being made right.
But the news that saves us didn’t come in a feed. It came in flesh. It didn’t stoke fear, it crushed it. Christ does not spin headlines; He breaks them. His voice doesn’t ride the winds of hysteria but speaks in stillness, truth, and grace. So be watchful. Guard your mind. Starve the lies. Feed instead on the Word that renews, the Gospel that reforms, the Spirit that clears the fog. The world’s news forms the mind for worship, but not of God. Let your mind be made new, not by the scripts of empire, but by the shape of the Cross. That is the only news worth living by.