Not Budging
Penna Dexter I still have most of the Halloween candy I bought this year. We live within walking distance of three public schools. But where are the kids? Very few were in our neighborhood trick-or tr...
Bible Reading and Believing
Kerby Anderson On my radio program the other day, I provided a good news/bad news story. The good news is that the youngest generations (millennials and Gen Z) are reading the Bible. The bad news is t...
Same-Sex Marriage
Kerby Anderson Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided not to revisit its previous decision that legalized same-sex marriage. Although there was a suggestion by Justice Clarence Thomas that the justic...
Urban Crackdown
Kerby Anderson For the last three months, National Guard troops have been deployed to several cities in the country. Unfortunately, one of the major reasons for this urban crackdown is rarely mentione...
Hunger Games
Kerby Anderson Columnist Cal Thomas wrote about “The Hunger Games.” He wasn’t talking about the movies but about the fact that 42 million people receive food aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assist...
Shutdown Economics
Kerby Anderson The nation has just endured the longest government shutdown in history. News stories focused on everything from flight delays to the interruption of SNAP payments. As some parts of the...
Boomer World
Penna Dexter Like it or not, it’s a Boomer world. The huge and influential baby boom generation is still the most powerful presence in American society. Members of the Boomer generation were born betw...
Digital ID
Kerby Anderson Europe is moving quickly to make sure that every person in every country has a digital identification on their phone. Michael Brendan Dougherty dreads that “The Rush to Digital ID is Cr...
Climate Change
Kerby Anderson The Climate Change Conference in Brazil has taken on a different perspective because of a memo posted two weeks ago by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. He argued that: “Although climate...
Future Tense
Kerby Anderson Michael Lewis begins his book, The Big Short with this quote from Leo Tolstoy. “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of...
Human Soul
Kerby Anderson “American physician Duncan MacDougall is known as the man who tried to weigh the human soul.” That’s how neuroscientist, Dr. Sharon Dirckx begins her column in World magazine. If you ha...
Human Being
Kerby Anderson What does it mean to be a human being? This is a question raised in Psalm 8, “What is man?” This question is at the heart of so many of our social issues, such as human rights, gender,...
