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What About Greenland?

August 18, 2019

“We’re open for business, not for sale.”  — Greenland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Q: What is roughly 836,000+ sq mi, has fewer than 56,000 citizens, is acknowledged to be the world’s largest island, and has sparked an unusual amount of attention lately? A: Greenland, of course. As you may have heard, President Trump recently began […]

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Big Tech’s Manipulation of Election Votes

August 11, 2019

“We have reason to believe that Google is knowingly, deliberately, strategically manipulating people’s thinking and behavior from the very first character people type into the search box.” — Dr. Robert Epstein This past July, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee — specifically, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution — held a Congressional hearing about unethical […]

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Kissing Joshua Harris Goodbye (or Not)

August 4, 2019

In case you hadn’t heard, Joshua Harris (no relation), one of the leading lights of “purity culture”, is no longer promoting the practices he wrote about in the popular I Kissed Dating Goodbye (1997/2003). But, this is only part of the serious and surprising changes going on with Harris. Harris would follow up that first […]

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Dining with Minahasans and Jews

July 28, 2019

“MINAHASA: an Indonesian people inhabiting the Minahasa Peninsula of northeast Sulawesi” — Merriam-Webster Do you ever get really grossed out when you see or hear what certain other cultures eat? Certainly, missionaries and other visitors from one part of the world to another will encounter some “delicacies” that seem awfully strange, even disgusting. Why is […]

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Nature’s Calendars, Part 1: Ice Cores and Sediments

July 21, 2019

I didn’t post one in June, but this week I’d like to continue my series of excerpts from Hugh Ross’s book A Matter of Days, 2nd ed., about scientific measurements for distance and, especially, time (e.g., the age of the Earth and certain things on it). Whereas in May we looked at radiometric dating, this […]

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Forgiving Liam Neeson

July 14, 2019

“Forty years ago, Liam Neeson roamed in Black neighbourhoods across Northern Ireland looking for an innocent Black man to attack—a Black man like me….”  — Samuel Sey I have recently become aware of the writings of Samuel Sey at the Slow To Write blog. Sey is a Ghanaian-born Canadian who writes with brutal honesty — […]

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Trump, Tanks, and Patriotism

July 7, 2019

“It seems anything this president does or tries to do, Democrats object and go after him for — and that’s just wrong. It’s gotten so tiresome.”  — a New York-based attendee, father of four and a military veteran No sooner had Trump announced the “A Salute to America” event in Washington, D.C. and that he […]

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An Appropriate U.S. Response to Iran

June 30, 2019

“The truth is that Iran and the United States are now engaged in a great chess match. But the stakes are not those of intellectual gymnastics. The game is no game, for it involves the lives, and possible deaths, of thousands.”  — Victor Davis Hanson, noted author/historian/professor For the past couple days, the biggest Trump […]

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Headcoverings and Christian Country Clubs

June 23, 2019

MORES (pronounced like “morays”): “folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group”  — Webster’s Dictionary Bible reading can be… confusing, at times. And, even when it doesn’t seem to be, sometimes we misunderstand what is actually being advised, commanded, described, or otherwise referred to. One of the […]

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The President’s Problematic Women

June 16, 2019

“[I]t seems to me to be very unfair; it’s called freedom of speech.”  — President Trump to CNN Just to be clear up front, the particular “problematic” women I’m referring to are not those who are actually a problem for the President — e.g., Omarosa or Stormy or Nancy. Rather, I’m talking about influential women […]

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