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Actually it’s not “the economy, stupid!”
Bill Clinton’s campaign-winning slogan seems almost quaint, 18 years hence. Every day we read of at least one new dimension of economic crisis. Banks are failing, businesses closing, people are losing...
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China Blessed by the Puritans?
We’ve written earlier about Chinese scholars attributing America’s success to its Christianity. Here’s another Oriental surprise: Who would have guessed that China owes a debt to some Christians who...
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The Morality of Personal Finance
God delivered Israel from Egypt and began transforming a community of slaves into a free nation that modeled godly virtue. That process included repeatedly testing them: The LORD made a decree and …...
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Welfare the False and the True: Part I
[Vishal Mangalwadi argues that we have much to learn from a couple of Scots who wanted to care for widows and did something about it. Go here to read his original, unedited post of which the following...
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Welfare the False and the True: Part II
[Part I introduced the birth and decline of the Scottish Widow Fund, now completely secular and not growing as it used to. Go here to read his original, unedited post of which the following is a...
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Why Wealth is Better Than Riches
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by Allan Meltzer (A Welfare State or a Start-up Nation) which raises an issue deeper than tax-code revision and other mechanical differences...
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Too Few the Wise: The Folly Driving the Global Chaos, part 1
Today’s headlines almost defy imagination. Riots in unlikely places: Athens—ancient capital of democracy, Israel—island of freedom in a sea of tyranny, London—billed for the 2012 Olympic games as one...
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Too Few the Wise: The Folly Driving the Global Chaos, part 2
In my first installment I pointed out that healthy societies are built only on the foundation of wisdom, and wisdom comes from God. God is the spring of wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. While the...
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Far As the Curse is Found
This is post 2 of 3 in the series “Christmas 2020” Joy to the World; Heaven Comes to Earth! Far As the Curse is Found Goodwill from the Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem Years ago, singing “Joy to the...
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