Intact Families
Kerby Anderson Are single-parent families just as good for children as two-parent families? Some of the headlines recently in newspapers and news magazines seem to say so. But all you have to do is lo...
Confused Theology
Kerby Anderson Americans in general, and even evangelicals in particular, seem confused about important details of their faith. A study done by Lifeway Research found that Americans don’t know much ab...
Closing of the Liberal Mind
Kerby Anderson Most people would expect liberals to be open-minded, and yet they find that they are often the most intolerant. Kim Holmes explores the reasons for this transformation in his new book,...
Hidden Enemy
Kerby Anderson Michael Youssef warns us that we face both external threats and internal threats in his book, The Hidden Enemy. We face an external threat from radical, political Islam. That does not...
Birthing People
Penna Dexter An absurd phrase is used in the White House’s 2021 budget proposal: “birthing people.” It appears in a section dealing with funding to reduce maternal mortality, which is worse among blac...
Learned Helplessness
Kerby Anderson According to Peter Van Buren, there is another virus loose in the land. He refers to it as “learned helplessness.” The previous pandemic and lockdown encouraged many Americans to adapt...
Infrastructure Bill
Kerby Anderson If you’ve watched congressional politics, you know the game. Pull together all sorts of funding projects that would never pass on their own, and then stick them in a bill with a title l...
Inflation Spike
Kerby Anderson Prices are increasing everywhere and so there is lots of talk about inflation. At the same time, there are other economists warning that a future oversupply of goods might bring a defla...
Cryptocurrency Politics
Kerby Anderson Cryptocurrency has been in the news lately, so it’s not surprising that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been a topic of discussion in Congress. In fact, Senator Cynthia Lummis (...
IRS Scandal?
Kerby Anderson The opening lines of a Wall Street Journal editorial observed, “That didn’t take long.” We aren’t even half a year into the Biden presidency, and already have an IRS scandal. ProPublica...
Inclusive Math
Penna Dexter The California State Board of Education has developed a curriculum that, if approved, is supposed to help attract “Black, Latinx, and Multilingual” people to mathematics. Here’s the plan:...
Age of Anxiety
Kerby Anderson Although the lockdowns have been ending at various times in different states, we are discovering that some people are scared to go back to normal life. Anna Russell writes about this in...
