It’s looking more and more like a Trump vs Sanders race. Bernie Sanders may have the best chance to win the Democratic nomination for president. He has “The Big Mo”(momentum), has raised more money than any other Democratic candidate, and has the best grass-roots support and national network. Sanders has
Bernie Sanders is on the march. As of this writing, the outright winner of the Feb 3 Iowa caucus is still undetermined, but Sanders won the popular vote, and, along with his rival Pete Buttigieg, claimed victory. This, after losing in 2016 in the narrowest margin in Iowa caucus history
Not quite three weeks ago we posted Socialism vs. Capitalism. It’s a hot topic, not to mention important, and the post has garnered lots of hits. So we are advancing the release of the video version in an effort to harness this interest and push the message out even further.
Why is Fidel Castro regarded as a hero by so many people? Depends. For their part, leftists admire anyone who rages against the United States. Others simply are ignorant of the facts. Darrow explains all this very powerfully in this week’s whiteboard animation post. Click the image to go to
“Ideas have consequences.” Many people are familiar with that profound observation by Richard Weaver. Now a popular Canadian psychologist, Jordan Peterson, has made a parallel observation, a variation from Carl Jung’s original, “People don’t have ideas, ideas have people!” Peterson tweaks it, “You don’t have ideas; ideas have you!” He
One of the books that most shaped my work on Discipling the Nations was The Creation of Wealth by Brian Griffiths. Griffiths has been Dean of the City University Business School in London, a director of the Bank of England. In the modern materialistic world wealth is seen as a
Generally, it seems, it is evangelical Christians who are accused of politicizing faith. “Religion should be private” is often heard from those who object when Christ-followers seek to bring biblical principles to the public square. But as Egyptian-born social anthropologist Michael Youssef demonstrates in a recent post, Keep Jesus Out of
[The following post, refreshed from its original publication, is highly relevant to the current political-economic environment.] The global economic crisis is, at its root, a moral and metaphysical crisis. Our economic principles and polices are founded on assumptions which are either theistic or atheistic. One set of assumptions fits reality the
Oikonomia vs. Chrematistics In direct opposition to what those possessing a GCU (Great Commission Utilitarianism) mindset state, God’s ends reveals that human beings are placed on earth for economic purposes: to be the catalysts to allow families, communities and nations to reach their fruition. We see this unfold in the
Check out www.YouTube.com/VishalMangalwadi in light of Obama’s upcoming inauguration. Should he swear in on the Bible? Plus, other interesting thoughts about race, change, merit, and politics. We think a lot of Vishal’s work, reflections and important cultural insights. -Tim C. Williams
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