Recent Viewpoints

Kerby Anderson It was a grand experiment. Declare a “War on Poverty” and years later celebrate a victory. Unfortunately, poverty won the war. The percentage of people in poverty today is just slightly lower than the percentage in the 1960s when the war to end poverty began. People living in poverty now are doing better than decades ago, but we certainly have not eliminated poverty. Peter Cove has a bold vision. The title of his book is, Poor No More:…

Kerby Anderson The events over the last two weeks are reason enough to ask a tough question. Why do some people believe there are superior races and inferior races? That is certainly not a biblical perspective. Mark Bailey is the President of Dallas Theological Seminary. He has written an insightful commentary on The Absolute Absurdity of a Supreme Race. His biblical argument looks at two key Bible passages. First, is the biblical account of creation that explains that, “God made…

Penna Dexter Columnist George Will writes frequently about how young adults can avoid winding up poor. He says, “First, get at least a high school diploma, then get a job, then get married, and only then have children.” In a recent column, he addresses the “success sequence,” which he says is “insurance against poverty.” A report published this summer, by the Institute for Family Studies and cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute provides fresh evidence of the wisdom of George…

Kerby Anderson Jean Twenge has been researching generational differences for a quarter century. But she noticed in 2012 abrupt shifts in teen behaviors and emotional states. Up until that time there were gentle slopes of line graphs. Suddenly they became steep mountains and sheer cliffs. That year is when the proportion of Americans who owned a smartphone surpassed 50 percent. Her latest article in The Atlantic asks the ominous question: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?  The generation she is thinking…

Kerby Anderson Dinesh D’Souza is ready to debunk what he calls The Big Lie, in his book by the same title. The Left have been saying that the president is a fascist and the Republican Party is akin to the Nazi Party. Street thugs and pundits throw around the Nazi card and the fascism card with abandon. He believes it is time to turn the tables and explain who the real fascists are. If you want to see a true…

Kerby Anderson When Google computer scientist James Damore tried to start a conversation about diversity and inclusion within the company, he and Google soon found themselves in a national conversation. His memo addressed “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber” and explained that many ideas and viewpoints at the company could not be honestly discussed. Google’s Vice President of Diversity, Integrity & Governance criticized the 10-page memo because it “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender.” Then many of the employees at Google called for…

Kerby Anderson Where are the moderate Muslims? This a question I hear whenever there is a terrorist attack and there seems to be silence from the Muslim community. Christine Douglass-Williams tries to answer that question and many others in her book, The Challenge of Modernizing Islam. When she was on my radio program, she said the original title talked about reforming Islam. They concluded that wasn’t precise enough. She points out that currently there is a turf war within Islam…

Kerby Anderson When President Everett Piper wrote his commentary about an incident on his campus, he had no idea that it would go viral (with 3.5 million views). He told the story about one of the students who felt victimized after a university chapel by a sermon on 1 Corinthians 13, often known as the “love chapter” in Paul’s epistle. He explained the philosophy at Oklahoma Wesleyan University and ended it by saying, “This is not a day care. This…

Penna Dexter Because Americans did not participate or behave the way the planners of ObamaCare had expected, here we are in 2017 with an individual health insurance market that is collapsing. Insurance companies have to decide whether to drop out or raise premiums to stay in business. Members of Congress are desperate to keep premiums from rising. Yet the idea of bailing out insurance companies is politically unpalatable. The Left dangles its solution: Why not take the insurance company out…

Kerby Anderson When a Hollywood celebrity testifies before Congress, usually there is lots of fawning press coverage but very little of substance that can influence public policy. At the House Oversight Committee hearing on “Challenges to Freedom of Speech on College Campuses,” you had just the opposite. Some important things were said but it received little press coverage. Perhaps that is due to the fact that conservative pundit Ben Shapiro and comedian Adam Carolla were testifying. Adam Carolla talked about…

Kerby Anderson Philip Yancey begins with an admission: “I am going through a personal crisis.” He explains that he used to love reading. In fact, he understands that “books help define who I am.” But that is his past not his present. He has discovered that the Internet and social media have trained his brain “to read a paragraph or two, and than start looking around.” When he is reading an article online pretty soon he is looking at the…