Somebody get Pure Flix on the line, because Mark Appel’s story will almost certainly become a movie. Saturday, Appel, the top pick in the 2013 Major League Baseball draft and a practicing Christian, officially joined a big league ballclub nine years after establishing himself as the top prospect in the game.

It’s always uplifting when the Lord provides reminders that His power outstrips even the vilest and most violent efforts of man to destroy his Church. Recently, such a reminder emerged when archaeologists in Iraq discovered Christian relics in a church that only recently was desecrated by members of ISIS.

Ghislaine Maxwell has been put on suicide watch at a Brooklyn jail, and may seek to delay her Tuesday sentencing for aiding Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls, her lawyer said on Saturday night.

Although the United States’ newly minted gun law does not restrict most Americans’ access to any firearms, gun rights advocacy groups spent much of Saturday rallying support for a legal and legislative fight against what they perceive as a thinly veiled effort to build toward the types of tighter restrictions gun owners fear and for which leftists clamor.