Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 18) 　　The context of this affirmation was novel....

　　Jamal Love was trying to fix his wifes bike fender so she could keep riding it to work. For most of their marriage, he would have tried to figure it out on his own. But this time, he realized he could turn to a neighbor for help: a fellow tiny house resident on the property of a church in St....

　　“To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the proper answer of the tongue.” Proverbs 15:1 (NIV) 　　I had it all planned out. I would take the beginning of the week and get ahead on articles and assignments, leaving me the rest of the week (and part of the month) to work on a big...

　　Dozens of startups now offer Artificial Intelligence tools to help businesses set market prices. Assuming unlimited computing power to run such models and comprehensive data sets to train them, can AI replicate the way human actors make decisions in the marketplace? Socialists have argued for more than a century that enlightened bureaucrats can set prices as well as the myriad...

　　Jehovah Rohi – God is Our Good Shepherd 　　By Jennifer Kostick 　　Today's Bible Verse:The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.- Psalm 23:1 　　When I was a little girl, age ten, my grandfather passed away. The paternal side of my family was not active in church and to my knowledge knew nothing about the Jesus my next door neighbors...

　　God Disciplines Us in Love 　　Weekly Overview: 　　There is no better father than Creator God. He formed us and knows us. He provides for us, loves us unconditionally, and longs for real, life-giving relationship with us. He runs out to meet us in our sin, clothes us with new identity, and restores to us the abundant life he has always...

　　Weekend, August 3, 2024 　　The Shepherd’s Desire 　　“The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” (John 10:10 NLT) 　　What is the desire of the Good Shepherd for His sheep? His desire for His flock is for them to flourish. He wants them to be well-fed and cared...

　　Last Sunday, July 28, pastor Csar Mermejo preached about hope in difficult times to his congregation in Maracay, a city of 1.3 million that sits close to the Caribbean coast. 　　But he did so via a pre-recorded audio file he distributed via WhatsApp, following the governments advisory against in-person gatherings on Election Day. 　　In his digital broadcast to Comunidad Cristiana...

　　Vice President Kamala Harris isnt the type of politician to cite the Bible a lot. 　　Darryl Ford, the former pastor of a nondenominational evangelical church in Atlanta, thinks that might be a good thing. 　　Weve gotten used to seeing people who will make Bible quotations and pray for me on a Sunday, then vote to disenfranchise me on a Tuesday,...

　　The idea of a federal wealth tax recently has become a popular cause among “progressives.” The question arises, however, of whether such a tax would be constitutional. 　　In theory, a federal wealth tax could pass constitutional muster. But unless it qualified under the Constitution as an “indirect tax” rather than as a “direct” one, its projected revenue would have to...

　　Who Are You Leaning On? 　　By: Anne Peterson 　　Trust in the Lord with all your heart,and do not lean on your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him,and he will make straight your paths.- Proverbs 3:5-6 　　It was April 1972 when Bill Withers wrote the song, Lean on Me. A song many are familiar with. It addresses how we all...

　　“There are no solutions,” Thomas Sowell says. “There are only trade offs.” When considering policy and legal problems, tradeoffs must often be understood in light of the challenge of filtering: correctly sorting people, actions, or events into categories. The filter can be too wide or too narrow, and both flaws have costs. 　　Prominent changes in American law and policy based...