What happens when a generation of young people fail to marry and have children? Not only does life diminish for them, but to the degree this develops as a pattern, the society will become self-absorbed and die from within. In reality, half the world’s countries have a fertility rate below
The United States is being torn apart by charges of racism. You cannot surf the internet, watch the news, listen to the radio, or read a newspaper without encountering claims of racism. But the definition of racism has changed and today, it’s highly emotive and politicized. We used to think
Image by Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC 4.0 Former General Attorney Bill Barr recently gave a devastating analysis of public-school education in America, coupled with a radical solution; families with school-age children would do well to heed his counsel. More on that below. But Barr was not the first to publicly
Why does the world hate the Jews? Dennis Prager relates Hitler’s answer to this question. “We are fighting,” he said, “against the most ancient curse that humanity has brought upon itself. Against the so-called Ten Commandments, against them we are fighting.” His life’s mission, he said, was to destroy “the
Three questions interweave in ways that may not be immediately evident: they all relate to the moral universe. Why are the Jews God’s chosen people? Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why have Jews been so persecuted throughout history? I have pondered these questions much of my adult
Genesis chapter 3 records the rebellion and consequent fall of humans. The creation fell under a curse, and a vicious cycle of human poverty began. People worshiped gods of their own imagination, small family gods, tribal gods, capricious gods of nature with limited power. These gods were unpredictable, they ruled
One of the most profound stories in the scriptures is that of Joseph in Egypt. It tells us a valuable lesson about leadership. In Genesis 41 the Pharaoh had a dream no one could interpret. Then he was told of an imprisoned Hebrew who could interpret the dream. Which Joseph
Faith as taught in the Bible is not the same as we often think of it today. Both the Old and New Testament assume God exists and He made an orderly creation. That creation order screams to the universe, to all humanity, the existence of God. We see this, for
Racism is manifested in personal and institutional evil. Its ultimate cause is found in the sin deep in the human heart. Racism flows in many streams, one is envy, a pathetic contrast to love. Envy appears at multiple levels: individual, family, tribe or race. We envy the talents of others,
Genesis 24 is the longest chapter in the book. And what is the subject of this chapter? It is not about the creation, as important as that is. We live in a universe alive with life because before the creation of the world, God existed. He filled the universe with
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