To Resurrect ‘The Idea Of A Christian Society’ Christians Need To Get Courageous
We are experiencing a new kind of class warfare, and the Christian voice in the public square is needed now more than ever, says R.R. Reno in Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. In the book...
View ArticleHow To Make Sure Your Charity Doesn’t Keep People Poor
While natural disasters like Hurricane Matthew cause destruction all over the world, not all countries suffer equally. In the aftermath of the October 4 hurricane, rivers overflowed their banks in...
View ArticleHow To Stop Despairing Over World Suffering And Start Addressing It
How should we respond to suffering in the world? Dannagal Young considers this in a Wednesday piece for The Atlantic, noting in particular the human tendency to shut out graphic and painful details of...
View ArticleIt Doesn’t Matter How Many Americans Have Health Insurance
We remember the refrain from the run-up to Obamacare that 40 million Americans are without insurance, and we now have its echo in the Congressional Budget Office report that its repeal could lead to 18...
View ArticleArizona Governor: Drop Charges Against Guy Giving Free Haircuts To Homeless
In Arizona, an act of charity became a possibly criminal act when a state board took issue with a cosmetology student giving free haircuts to local homeless people. Juan Carlos Montesdeoca is a Tucson...
View ArticleIt’s Time For The Left To Stop Imposing Its Morality On Everyone
I was born in 1977, and for most of my life if I listened closely enough, somewhere I could hear some leftist shouting “Stop imposing your morality on me!” Today I’ll be writing about why I agree. This...
View ArticleThousands Visit Free Clinics In Barns And Fields: ‘We’re The Middle Class,...
The sun has not risen when hundreds of people gather before the barbed-wire fence. Some have been here for days. Entire families packed into small cars and drove here from all over the country. Many...
View ArticleJ.J. Watt’s Crowdfunding Effort For Houston Tops $4 Million With $1 Million...
J.J. Watt, the Houston Texans’ charismatic defensive end, has shown again in the wake of Hurricane Harvey what makes him popular with many NFL fans, regardless of team allegiance. A Wisconsin native,...
View ArticleSouthern Poverty Law Center Got Busted Again Sending Millions To Offshore...
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit organization that has long been regarded as a glorified direct-mail scam that profits from hate-mongering, has come under fire yet again for its shady...
View Article3 Wise Rules For Social Media From Martin Luther
Martin Luther—do you mean the German monk who sparked the Protestant Reformation with a blow of his hammer in 1517? The guy who called out the pope and mocked the institutions and leaders of his day?...
View ArticleHow To Live Thanks? By Giving
The morning was dark, and cold. Well before sunrise, before most of Washington had awoken, the crisp, chill January air held a solemn stillness. In the bleak mid-winter, who would roust themselves at...
View ArticleI Turned My Coworker Into HR When She Gave Me A Christmas Card, And She...
For years I have been one of the only Jewish people at my places of employment. I am currently the only Jew who wears a kippah at my office every day. In my heavily Southern Baptist and rural town, one...
View ArticleLosing A Job Taught Me How Tax Cuts Can Protect The Needy
A few years ago, I lost my job. I went to work like it was any normal day, and just after lunch they called several of us in and announced they were terminating our positions. I left that day without a...
View ArticleResearch Finds Corporate Do-Gooder Initiatives Reduce Charity, Increase...
Virtually everyone is familiar with some kind of “corporate social responsibility,” or CSR: the fundraisers for a local charity, team-building-service-projects, “fundraising drives” where a company...
View ArticleWhat I Saw Of The World Inside A Greek Refugee Camp
For every person you help today, two more will need help tomorrow. This is the dilemma much of Europe faces today, as the continent grapples with a historic influx of millions of migrants and refugees....
View ArticleWhat Life In Communist China Taught Me About Bernie Sanders’ Guaranteed Jobs
When I was about 14 I overheard a close family friend comment on another woman’s hair. “Such long hair! Quite expensive in terms of shampoo.” The involuntary exclamation illustrates a part of the world...
View ArticleHow Redistributing Wealth To Promote The American Dream Has Actually...
Our idea of the American Dream has changed through the years, just as the country has changed. The closing of the frontier and the end of homesteading has meant that starting off anew out West is not...
View ArticleMeet The Man Mowing Lawns For Those In Need Across America
Rodney Smith is on a mission to mow lawns for veterans, elderly individuals, single moms, and those who are handicapped in all 50 states. Two years ago, Smith started Raising Men Lawn Care Service,...
View ArticleHow Michelle Obama’s Crusade To Rescue Schoolgirls From Boko Haram Ended In...
You remember the face: Set in a frown at once sympathetic and determined, her eyes pleading, bearing a simple exhortation to the world. It was the face that launched a thousand tweets, as well as a...
View ArticleCourt Stops Bureaucrats Who Tried To Tax Christians For Feeding Poor Children
Now and then, children win, and when theirs is a triumph over the kind of entrenched, biased bureaucracy that so often frustrates their elders, the joys of victory are rich indeed. For 17 years now,...
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