This is post 1 of 2 in the series “immigration” Young Immigrants Coming to America: What’s at Stake? Toward a Sound Immigration Policy In response to a reader burdened by the current crisis at the US-Mexico border, we are reposting two articles about immigration that Darrow wrote last year.
Africa, the pleasant continent of promise, has been perceived as a dark and cursed continent. But is Africa cursed? Most of the world is acquainted with only the bad news of Africa: wars, sicknesses, pain, poverty, hunger, famine, and deprivation. … Though external factors such as colonialism, the slave trade,
Jesus feeds the multitude, as painted by Giovanni Lanfranco God’s word is wonderful. Over the years I have come to see that it is inexhaustible in its breadth (it is the “owner’s manual”) and its depth (you can read the same passage hundreds of times over the years and always
This is post 3 of 4 in the series “corruption” What’s the Big Deal About Corruption? What’s the Big Deal About Corruption? part 2 You Can Stop Corruption! Resist Corruption, Serve the Kingdom of Heaven [from part 2] Corruption is not moral in one country and immoral in another. Corruption
This is post 1 of 4 in the series “corruption” What’s the Big Deal About Corruption? What’s the Big Deal About Corruption? part 2 You Can Stop Corruption! Resist Corruption, Serve the Kingdom of Heaven Systemic corruption is nothing new. The Protestant Reformation is rooted in Martin Luther’s identification of
“Why does Africa import $50 billion worth of food that it could grow itself? Jon Vandenheuvel can give you the answer in one word.” So says Mike Metzger. The call upon my life has been to engage with the world of poverty. A question central to that endeavor has been
Why are some people and nations rich and others poor? What is the source of wealth? Most people have the mistaken idea that wealth is “found” in the ground. But if this were the case, the Democratic Republic of the Congo would be fabulously wealthy and Singapore impoverished. But the
Singapore, identified by its people as the “Garden City,” is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It has not always been so. On August 9, 1965, when Singapore gained independence from Malaysia, it was a dirty, crime-infested, corruption-ridden, poor, crowded, inhospitable, resource-deprived third-world nation, perched on a 286-square-mile
Food seems like an unlikely ingredient for cultural transformation (read discipling). But it clearly is. In a time when the Right seems hellbent on raping the planet and the Left is fixated on “climate change” there is a sane middle. There are voices speaking and hands working in their own communities
Photo by Takeaway – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Sometimes a dream becomes the gateway to the future. Thirty-five years ago, Jim and Debbie (not their real names) worked in villages in Thailand where many farmers grew opium. Jim and Debbie wanted to help them find Christ and make an honest
