“For $187 kids can eat like kings for a week.” This was a comment I overheard (yes, I was eavesdropping) in a conversation about children attending youth camp. The two individuals were discussing increased attendance at camps, and came to the conclusion that in a bad economy families can’t go on vacations and so kids [...]
Radical by David Platt has been a challenging read – but I am, perhaps, not the only one to say that. His admonition to walk away from the American Dream to pursue wholly the will of God is convicting. In one passage he talks about the joy in the faces of persecuted (and executed) missionaries [...]
“I think he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel that they’re not racist because they can like this guy, I think they like him because he’s a black man who knows his place.” I just heard Democratic strategist Karen Finney say these words about Herman Cain. To say that it [...]
1Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him. 2The LORD has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 3He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house [...]
The commonly accepted phrase goes, “there is strength in numbers.” Yes, there absolutely is! And yet, I find the Bible always challenging me to understand God’s wisdom, and not rely on worldly wisdom. In the first book of Samuel, David is struggling to stay alive as Saul relentlessly pursues him. His compassionate friend, Jonathan, knows [...]
I’ve never understood truth in its entirety and perhaps never will as long as I live. The meaning of the word truth as I’ve used it, is far more complicated than I can even fathom. I say this partly because of life experiences and struggling to come to terms with the lies in my life. [...]
I just read a news story about an Ohio town taking the ‘Easter’ out of its annual egg hunt. My first thought was “how ridiculous.” Here’s the video: Yet, this is government sponsored event. And the argument can be made that the government should not be sponsoring a particular “religious” event. But there is a [...]
I was wondering what on earth (quite literally) had happened. At first it was just tweets, where people were indicating that they were “praying for Japan.” And so, like you, I checked out the news and learned of Japan’s tragedy. Disasters quickly gain our attention, and we’re sitting there, rapt in anticipation of knowing what [...]
I had to read the title to this article over and over again to finally understand it. Now, I admit I am a little slow, but the title was: ‘Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss.’ But if that did not make sense the article goes on to say, “This latest program, which [...]
In his book, ‘The Fatal Conceit’ Friedrich Hayek said the fatal conceit is “the idea that the ability to acquire skills stems from reason.” At the time of Hayek’s writing ‘rationalism’ was all the rage. Although, I think it has always been rage, and still is, at the time Hayek was writing this it was [...]
Over time the prices of goods and services in most industries fall. We have all witnessed the incredible declines in the prices of computers, DVD players, and other electronic equipment. More generally, though, the price of durable goods, adjusted for overall inflation, has fallen by about two-thirds over the past half-century. Yet, tuition costs have [...]
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