If you read about such things then you know that an alarming number of church-going young people stop going to church after they leave home after high school. The figure is something like 70-75% of youths who go to church drop out by the time they hit age 18. Some of them come back when […]
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I read in the Washington Post that protesters in Yemen, who want to oust the ruthless dictator there, are upset that the United States won’t help them. These protesters think that the USA is just chasing headlines–when the body count gets too high, like in Libya, the United States gets interested. Meanwhile, the United States
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I don’t envy President Barack Obama as he tries to figure out what to do, if anything, about Egypt. The Egyptian people want freedom, opportunity, and an end to corruption. All of that is easy to root for. But what are we supposed to do about it? If we do nothing, and the movement fails, some
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Dear Reader: If you read this recently you might have noticed that some distracting words in blue were added to the text. I was hacked. Moving on… President Obama had some interesting things to say during his State of the Union Address. I like the themes of cleaner energy, improved education, and more jobs. Though
Governor Robert Bentley, a Republican from Alabama, had this to say shortly after his inauguration, “Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother.” This was reported by The Birmingham News. Predictably, people were
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