On Easter, the holiest day of the year, we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Savior, and Treasure. Just saying those words out loud — Lord…Savior…Treasure — it is easy to recognize why modern socialist governments find Christianity so threatening. For if He is the King of kings, then all of our would-be masters in this world are pale imposters. If He alone is the Way and the Truth and the Life, then the marble halls of Big Government are just false paths leading to false idols that promise false salvation. If He is the only Treasure, then all of the things that governments do to make us envious, resentful, and hateful toward one another are tricks and lies meant to blind us from the Truth.
A Canadian writer named Dimpee Brar wrote a beautiful and insightful essay on this subject last month. In that essay, Brar draws attention to the more than eighty churches that have been set on fire across her country. She deftly describes how government-sponsored lies instigated these attacks on Christian houses of worship and argues persuasively that Marxist-globalist governments view Christ, Christians, and Christianity as foremost enemies.
Brar notes that the corporate news media routinely downplay these recurring acts of desecration by undercounting the number of churches set on fire and reporting on the crimes with intentionally vague language that obfuscates the perpetrators’ obvious motives. Canadian journalists report upon the church attacks as if they were “random accidents” happening inside of commercial businesses. She argues that each of these church fires should instead be seen as “episodes in a larger campaign” of a “war being waged against the West.”
Brar points out that all of this destruction is based upon the government-perpetuated lie that mass graves of indigenous children have been found on the grounds of Christian schools. The lie has been exposed, but Canadian politicians continue to defend the actions of arsonists as “understandable.” “To the Left…the truth is secondary to the permission it grants.” Hatred for Western civilization is disguised as “justice.” The attacks on Christian churches implicitly instruct the youngest generations that “nothing is sacred.” Canada’s prime ministers elevate grievances over God’s enduring Truth.
Canadian citizens are not spontaneously burning churches to the ground. Canadian schools, cultural institutions, and businesses first taught citizens to despise their civilization. By teaching entire generations that “all ways of life are equal; that any claim to superiority is a disguised will to power; and that distinctions between noble and base, just and unjust, good and bad, and above all, true and false, are instruments of ‘oppression,’” anti-Western radicals replaced Jesus Christ with relativism. The Marxist-globalist orthodoxy that now oppresses us cannot countenance Western civilization’s proclamation “that our way of life is superior not by race or conquest, but because it is true; therefore, it is good, just, and noble.”
Demonstrating true intellect, Brar recognizes that our civilizational inheritance as Westerners includes “the twin roots of Jerusalem and Athens: biblical revelation and reason.” Although distinct sources of wisdom, both “roots” lead us to Truth by recognizing that there is a “best way” to live and a “standard” that exists “both outside and above us.” The gifts of Western civilization are therefore lasting impediments to leftism’s need for “tyrannical rule.”
“This is why our churches must burn,” Brar concludes. The “steeples are the most visible symbol of the biblical half of our inheritance….guiding our eyes, and with them our souls, upward to the highest things.” Jesus Christ reveals the left’s moral relativists as false prophets because “when there is God and Truth, then everything is not permissible.”
Here is where Brar’s argument reveals profound personal wisdom. She looks around at all the churches burning across Canada and recognizes that “our enemies pay us great compliments.” The left’s “hatred” and “resentment” reveal how much they fear us. If those of us committed to defending Western civilization were truly defeated, Marxist-globalists would treat us with “pity” and “indifference.” Instead, their “rage is proportional to the threat they perceive.” Leftists understand that Christianity “remains the greatest obstacle to the tyranny they wish to institute.”
Recognizing that leftists have unintentionally revealed what they fear most, Brar rallies Christians to stop hiding or apologizing. Instead, she charges, we must “regain a seriousness equal to that of our opponents. If they judge this way of life dangerous enough to burn, then it is time we judged it once more worthy of living and defending in full.”
Do her words not light a spark within you? Does her call not embolden you to defend your Christian faith? Has she not revealed leftism as nothing more than a magician’s trick or a desert’s mirage? Has she not proved that Christ’s Truth is the Way?
How can we allow ourselves to ever feel defeated if we remain faithful followers of Christ? How could we stand with Him and worry that mortals such as Mark Carney, Barack Obama, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, or Ursula von der Leyen could vanquish Western civilization with Marxist-globalism’s moral relativism? Power does not rest with godless political leaders. Eternal Truth begins and ends with God. Jesus Christ defeated death. Why would we fear the legacies of politicians, bankers, actors, or musicians who demand to be worshipped in this life?
The war being waged against the West is real. Every church that leftists burn to the ground is a reminder of the stakes. But a house of God is much more than bricks and stones. Arsonists can demolish walls and steeples. Only we can demolish our faith.
That’s a vital distinction. Leftist governments want to humiliate, demoralize, and enfeeble us. Moral relativists want us to feel weak and defeated. Marxist-globalists wish for us to accept that Western civilization is lost. What our enemies know — and what we too often forget — is that we alone decide whether to submit. We alone decide whether to give in to tyranny or to continue fighting it. We alone decide whether leftists really have the power to vanquish Reason, Truth, and Christ.
On one side stand those who wish to divide, diminish, and destroy. On the other side stands our Lord, Savior, and Treasure, Jesus Christ. On Easter, we remember His sacrifice. Let us also remember that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. So long as we sustain our faith, Western civilization will endure. It is leftism — false, resentful, and evil — that will die, wither, and fade away.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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