The Nigerian government rescued 92 Nigerian Christians, including seven children, from jihadists who appeared to be attempting to enslave them.
Nigeria’s military spokesperson Sani Uba said, “Converging on the terrorists in a well-coordinated pursuit toward the Mangari-Dora general area, Operation HADIN KAI troops engaged the insurgents and forced them to abandon their captives and flee in confusion.”
Originally published May 15, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
By Bill Collier, Publisher
“The more your own suffering blots out the suffering of others, the more likely your suffering will overcome you.” – Paul Gordon Collier
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” – Romans 5:1-5
The first essay is about remembering that witness she called Bill to share, and the second one is how to be a good Alzheimer’s healthcare advocate for your loved one.
Sometimes Satan is allowed to inflict suffering on the Elect for reasons that serve the Kingdom but yet we may never be able to understand those reasons in this life. In my case, the worse example is what happened to my precious and most beloved wife, Dora.
Dora suffered the rare affliction of Alzheimer’s starting to steal her mind from her at only 50 years old. On top of this, the medical system I experienced failed her utterly. She was accused of lying about her condition to defraud the government through a disability claim.
This meant that between August 2015 when it appeared she had a stroke, until March of 2021, I had no diagnosis, no treatment or medicines that would help her, and no real coping mechanisms because I was trying to help her recover from a stroke and the sudden onset of “catastrophic anxiety” (her initial diagnosis).
I do not know how this could serve the Kingdom, beyond enabling me to carry out Dora’s wishes that I utilize her sickness and our unwavering faith in Jesus to help others and to show how real our God is, even through such straits.
I have surrendered. I still sometimes want off the altar, but my dream is that my entire existence would be rendered a living sacrifice to God in the service of His Kingdom, regardless of what I may suffer.
Losing Dora like this was not just or necessary; the medical system failed us bigly, and now I get to promote early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s.
It would be Dora’s wish, and mine, to help others avoid the suffering Dora had to endure.
By the grace of God, this has even reached the ears of people with resources to back such efforts that are reaching millions of people every month.
The message is getting out and policy makers are taking notice, private corporations are reconsidering our approach to cognitive diseases and the quality of life for both the sick person and their loved ones who care for them.
I do not know if this happened so I could reach millions of people and possibly see real changes, I just know it DID happen and our faith remained intact until the end AND it continues within me now.
When I fear losing a bid for a contract or having to deal with smears and attacks on my reputation, or just failing at a project, I consider this: I survived, faith intact, the death of my wife and nothing, not even my own life, was more precious to me, outside of God Himself, than Dora is to me, both when she was present in the flesh and now that she is with the Lord, who Dora deeply loved.
If I suffer as an innocent person, or even if I suffer owing to a mistake but the “consequences” are disproportionate and unfair, I know I have my reward awaiting me.
I have seen some hideous things people of faith have suffered, real damage that some never recover from all their days, suffering they did not deserve.
I consider then what happened to Dora and me, and I realize that if I don’t find my joy and peace in Christ alone, then joy and peace become a weapon designed to force compliance with the world.
Do we want to suffer?
No.
Will we suffer in this life?
Yes. And it may often come in ways that make no sense. It may come in ways that defy explanation. We find ourselves not understanding how this could possibly be good for us. And yet it always is good for us, in terms of eternity.
I am still suffering and yet I still have joy and peace, and I am still engaging and dreaming with my family and friends, still striving for greater things (like our Hope Estates project).
Who I am is between God and me alone; He knows me better than I know myself and He loves me more than I could love anyone, more than I loved Dora, more than I love God. I will never be able to match what He has done for me and what He is doing within me now.
If tomorrow I lost everything, if someone lied about me, if I became sick, if the economy tanked, or any other disaster were to happen, what carried me through the very worst scenario I could have imagined was my relationship with Jesus Christ and His love for me.
I have always known these things as truths, like “the fellowship of His suffering“, and to fall in love more with my eternity than my present.
Yet, after this previously unfathomable trial, it is now known experientially, in a different way, as a feeling, as a fellowship of all who have suffered, as well as with Jesus, who suffered more than all of us together.
It has a different energy and effect within me now, this knowledge of being heavenly minded while still also being used to do good on this earth.
That feeling of being heavenly minded is now more powerful than the actual suffering endured.
I am certain the future will bring me suffering, although the worst kind is an accomplished fact of my story. I am not afraid because that which I feared the worse has already happened and I did survive that.
Dora went to heaven, she is gone from this earth and that will never be OK with me, but that pain exists within love and faith centered on Jesus Christ, and thus He bears it with me and for me and binds my broken heart.
At this point anything else I suffer is less than what has already occurred.
We must endure and strive and understand that we don’t not need to understand, nor can we truly understand why God utilizes us, even through a spectacle of suffering. Yet we always have an unshakeable understanding that God loves us and that this will help us eternally if we remain on the altar, a living sacrifice.
AND NOW, HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP YOURSELF YOUR LOVED ONE RECEIVING ALHEIMER’S MEDICAL CARE.
If your loved one is in a medical, care, nursing, or memory care facility it is important for staff to see engaged family and friends who are always watching how they are being cared for.
A few things I did:
Enjoy whatever moments you can, work to find ways to have those moments, to show them your love and to receive it from them. My wife only stopped saying, “I love you” on the day before she died.
Do what is necessary and do not feel guilty about it. If people want to judge you over such an awful necessity, then they aren’t your people.
Losing Dora to this disease, early onset Alzheimer’s, remains the hardest blow I have ever received, and I am still hurting because of it.
But I have no guilt over how I cared for her or when I had no real choice but to send her away to memory care. I did eventually bring her home, and it wasn’t easy, logistically. I felt her being home was the best option for her quality of life as she could no longer do the rehabilitative stuff that could only happen there.
You have to step outside of your feelings and learn to put yourself last and how to be perfectly happy with that.
Anything else just seems crazy-making. When you lose them, it will be harder if you didn’t appreciate them as much as you could every day you had with them. Treasure every “I love you” and every touch, every connection that still exists.
If you learn to appreciate those last connections deeply and focus on that more than the suffering and the problems, you will have something precious when they finally stop.
I have no regrets. I can honestly say I appreciated every day I had with Dora since the day we were married. Even then, I understood that all things are temporary and must be appreciated in the moment. I learned not to take life or people for granted.
If you have a loved one in a care facility and you know that time is ticking, then try to appreciate whatever connections you can maintain with them, even if they forget who you are, even if it is one-sided.
I chose to love Dora regardless of what she could or couldn’t do in return.
I never faced Dora forgetting me, but I had assumed I would eventually, so I reveled in the time I still had, and in my case that never happened.
She passed away giving me a sign that her hands are still holding me, that she still loves me. Her final moment was pure love for me.
But I never assumed it would be like that. I just assumed she would forget who I was long before she could have even had such a powerful moment with me. That I received this gift at all is just an unexpected bonus.
Just focus on the moment you have with them in front of you.
Make decisions around what is best for them and possible for you, knowing you will probably never be able to do all you wish you could do; and that your choices may range only from hard and painful but necessary to very hard and more painful.
That’s the reality of such care. It’s best to accept it honestly and without fear. It’s best to focus on your love for them and to maintain whatever connections you can maintain.
The Indiana Supreme Court rejected a Planned Parenthood petition that would have applied a Court of Appeals ruling blocking an abortion ban from taking place. Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said the court “ruled in favor of office and delivered a decisive WIN for the people of Indiana and the unborn!”
Originally published May 8, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
By Bill Collier, Publisher
“Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love. Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?” – Proverbs 5:18-20
Sex is a spiritual communion between two souls meant to be together for life. Marriage is the place God pre-ordained for this union, because marriage, in its totality, is a shadow and representation of the love between Jesus Christ for the church, the Body of Christ, and between the church, who are the Bride of Christ, and their Lord.
This is so holy and sacrosanct; I can hardly find the words to convey how eternal and sacred this institution is. It does not end but changes from just between two people to the whole Body of Christ and Jesus Himself.
When I die, I will not be my late wife Dora’s husband nor will she be my wife; we are the bride of Christ forever, married to God in a perfect union.
People do not seem to understand marriage and sex from a pure Kingdom perspective. They miss the best God has to offer. We all miss it to some degree, but those who treat intimacy like a short round of sexual pleasure, while they treat marriage like dating with paperwork, are denying THEMSELVES God’s best for their lives.
I’m not here to judge any one person. I will discern and judge between what I see as right and wrong, from the absolute moral standards down to personal preferences, but not individuals.
If you are reading this and feel defensive, because this isn’t something you have lived, understand that I hadn’t lived it myself, I came to live it, but I spent a lot of my youth violating it and didn’t even understand what I was doing.
I invite you to consider God’s way.
You say, “who are you to say what God’s way is?”
Well, I have 66 sacred books and thousands of years of moral and doctrinal orthodoxy behind what I believe. In short, I didn’t just wake up one day and pretend I was hearing the voice of God or that my opinion about things was the utter sacred truth of God’s design.
Nonetheless, you may still think you understand what God wants better. You may reject the very notion of God’s existence. That’s between God and you.
I don’t judge you as a bad person or someone beneath me because you don’t agree that what I’m saying is God’s blueprint for marriage and sex. I just feel that you are missing God’s best, and my desire is for everyone to have God’s best for their lives with excellence.
I can have a viewpoint about God’s design for sex, marriage, and family, without judging you as a bad person or beneath me.
When it comes to God’s righteousness, I have fallen utterly short and throw myself at the foot of the Cross in total obedience and surrender. As St. Paul stated, “The good I would do I do not do and the bad I do not want to do, I do” (Romans 7:19). But thanks be to God for the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus Christ that saves me from this body of sin.
So, I present not a judgement against you but an offer of a better way. I went down my own unrighteous sexual path.
It was 1986, or maybe early 1987, while I was still confusing sex for love and love for sex, when that confusion finally broke me, for the better.
At one moment, after an indulgence that left me empty, I chose to deny myself any sexual gratification until I met the woman I would marry until death did part us.
I was still in denial of Christ. Yet even without Christ, I came to understand the unfruitfulness of sex outside of marriage. I would still do other awful things after I was sexually broken before truly repenting and renewing my covenant with God by faith in Jesus Christ.
After I came back to Christ, the vow became even more meaningful, as my views of healthy sexuality aligned with God’s. It is because of this vow that my wife and I didn’t so much as kiss until after the Pastor declared us married.
We could never bring back our virginity, we could not give that gift to each other; but we had both made a choice years before we met to refrain from sexual gratification until marriage.
The perfection of love is found in marriage and the pinnacle of that love shared is sexual intimacy, which, while gratifying, is about the connection; the gratification being a side effect, not the main show.
Experiencing pleasure is a good thing in marriage and finding ways to bring this type of pleasure to each other is an adventure; at least it can be, and optimally will be.
What do you do now if you have pretty much trashed God’s righteous standards in love, sex, and marriage? You stop. You search God’s Word for His standards. Don’t just read a book that tells you what the Bible says. Use modern tools, like a concordance and a Bible Dictionary, to find every reference, and judge for yourself what it says.
If you are part of a congregation, you should seek council within the parameters of your congregation. Yet continue in the steps that follow, for no institution, no human is infallible.
Next, find authors who have addressed these things, from the ancient to the modern, and judge for yourself, knowing, however, that you should treat this as something vital, holy, and urgent. You want to get it right for your own happiness and completeness. You want to be circumspect.
While people, including me here, may teach on the subject and claim they are teaching the right way, in the end, you alone are responsible for what you choose to believe and do.
This is why I am double careful when I share things to express them as a fallible man, not the arbiter of the meaning of the Word of God, lest I become a stumbling block to others through my own arrogance, or mislead them from God’s path through my own “sincere” error.
I strongly urge against sex outside of marriage, not as a prude, but because sex outside of marriage is, at best, in my considered opinion based on my faith, spiritually vapid and invalidating to your soul in ways that are hard to see in the moment of pleasure.
Many sometimes feel its emptiness but this passes and is forgotten as they seek a new dose of pleasure.
I can testify that sex inside of marriage with Christ as the head of our marital union was something almost mystical and affirming in ways I cannot describe, so much that years after the last time I was intimate with Dora, the blessedness of those encounters still fills me with joy.
I have theorized that IF I end up never remarried and thus never have sex again, it will be because what I had filled me for the rest of my life.
On the other hand, IF I remarried it would be with someone who holds the same view on intimacy and sex within a holy marriage. They would treat sex as a gift to be freely shared, not a chore, nor just a way to get physical pleasure, although it’s a definite benefit to have between you.
I would likely also refrain from any physical intimacy or kissing until marriage, not that I think it is wrong for everyone (you can kiss your boyfriend or girlfriend!), because for me that feels right.
If you are single, and Christian, let God choose your spouse and follow His plans.
I have presented what I have concluded is the best representation of God’s blueprint for marriage and sex that I possibly can.
It is up to you to judge whether I am close or far from the truth. But if you see that I am right or already know the same thing I do yet haven’t lived by it, now is the chance to repent, to re-center yourself in the center of God’s will, and to proceed forward into a new pattern and practices that are truly Kingdom centered and lead to blessings and happiness for all.
A mob of far-left progressive anti-Israel terrorists assaulted Jews as they were coming out of their synagogue. When cops arrived, the mobs attacked the cops. The response from Mamdani’s office has been tepid, with only three arrests announced as a follow-up.
NYC Police Arrest Three After Anti-Israel Mob Ambushes Synagogue– legalinsurrection.com
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EXCERPT:
New York City police arrested three people after an anti-Israel mob swarmed the Young Israel Senior Services of Midwood in Brooklyn on Monday night.
The synagogue hosted “an event promoting real estate in Israel and the West Bank.”
The anti-Israel group Pal-Awda NY/NJ organized the protest. The group uses “slogans such as ‘No settlers on stolen land’ and ‘Stop the sale of stolen Palestinian land.’”
New York State Sen. Sam Sutton condemned the event.
“Neither of these protests would have happened had these venues not chosen to host illegal sales of stolen Palestinian land,” the group responded. “The people of New York will not stand by while the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people is aided and abetted by institutions in our own city.”
NOW: Arrest during confrontations between protesters of “Land Sale” event and Israel supporters, outside of Young Israel Synagogue of Midwood, in Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/F3NPUc7gbG
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 12, 2026
From The New York Post:
The anti-Israel mob chanted “Palestine is ours alone,” and several carried a wide banner that read “Israel is killing children.”
During one fight, a person who concealed their face with a medical mask yanked a girl’s hair — and nearly threw her against a parked car in the process, according to a video obtained by The Post.
Shortly after, another man squared up against a squad of young men carrying a Palestinian flag.
“Let’s go, motherf–kers, c’mon! C’mon, motherf–kers!” the man yelled.
At least two teenage pro-Israel protesters were detained. As the NYPD marched them down the streets, their supporters followed and chanted for the cops to “let them go.”
An anti-Israel protester was also detained, cops said.
All three individuals taken into custody had thrown items during the heated protest, according to the NYPD.
JUST IN: Hundreds of protesters clashed with young Jewish men outside a Brooklyn senior center hosting an event promoting Israel and the West Bank.
Anti-Israel demonstrators waved a Hezbollah flag and chanted “globalize the intifada” and “brick by brick, wall by wall, Israel… pic.twitter.com/6078XBhtkW
