On October 7, 2023, the terrorist group Hamas committed a heinous attack on Israel. This has brought the entire Middle East to the brink of a war that has global consequences. The hot war is centered in Israel and Gaza, yet the war of ideas and ideals has been brewing
Is money the primary capital investment in a community or nation’s development? What capital is needed for nations and communities to develop? Who is responsible for communities and nations to be lifted out of poverty? The most common answers to these questions in the modern world is the need is
In our previous post we discussed the heat in discussions of social justice. Today we want to answer the question, Where does the heat come from? In a word, the heat comes from different sacred belief systems. One’s paradigm of choice between an open system or a closed system will
All people of good will, who have a heart of the poor and vulnerable, who are appalled by the corruption and injustice they see, who are aghast at the slaughtering of females on the scale of a holocaust, who grieve to watch sex-slavery replace black slavery … all such people
Anymore, it’s news when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in public without pledging to destroy the West. In May, at a nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty gathering he made clear reference to the United States in calling for the punishment of any threat to use nuclear weapons or attack against peaceful nuclear facilities.
When God appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai, he passed before him and proclaimed his name (Ex. 34:5-7). What was the first word God used to describe himself? Compassion. Indeed, this quality is at the very center of his nature. As Marvin Olasky reminds us in The Tragedy of American Compassion, compassion
Many are familiar with the saying that “The greatness of a society is measured by how well that society cares for the weakest human life.” I find myself reflecting on this regularly during the shifts in our nation. As I continue to work on our ongoing project, The 13 Transforming
The following post is the final installment in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day. The modern evangelical church, instead of providing a worldview that will challenge the tragic impoverishment of the animistic and
The following blog is the second in a six-part series on worldview and work taken from Darrow Miller’s new book, LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day. Mother Teresa, visiting the city of New York from her home city of Calcutta—perhaps one of the most physically poor cities
I enjoyed reading “Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic? The financial bust reminds us that free markets require a constellation of moral virtues” by Stephen Malanga. Darrow talks extensively about the Protestant work ethic that can help impoverished peoples understand the biblical worldview that lifts people out of poverty and
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