When Adversity Leads to God 　　By Lynette Kittle 　　Bible Reading: 　　“When my life was ebbing away, I remembered you, Lord, and my prayer rose to You, to Your holy temple” – Jonah 2:7 　　It’s difficult for us to watch people going through hardships, even more difficult to experience them ourselves. Earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, wars, and terror attacks, with the destruction...

　　It’s commonplace today that governments should try to promote prosperity by building their economic policy around a family of “general theories” developed in the 1930s, known today as “macroeconomics.” Over the past century, this field has legitimized centralizing a wide range of governments’ spending decisions and central banks’ policies, even when it raised deficits and debts. However, it turns out...

　　February 24, 2025 　　Unstuck and Unstoppable 　　BRITTANY MAHER 　　Lee en español 　　“He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.” Psalm 1:3 (ESV) 　　Can I be honest with you? For a long time, I felt spiritually stuck—newly married in...

　　How to Hang onto God (John 15:5) 　　By: Anne Peterson 　　Today's Bible Verse:I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. - John 15:5 　　So often in life when things get tough, we hear the words, “Just hang in there.”...

　　Saturday, February 22, 2025 　　Faith in Action 　　“What good is it, dear brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but don’t show it by your actions? Can that kind of faith save anyone?Suppose you see a brother or sister who has no food or clothing, and you say, ‘Good-bye and have a good day; stay warm and eat...

　　In just one month, there has been a massive reset of civil rights politics in the United States that will reverberate for decades. We are still waiting to see how this is going to take precise shape in the context of higher education. Among the Trump administration’s many DEI-related executive orders, none yet outlines a detailed program to address progressive...

　　Vivek Ramaswamy’s much-discussed Christmas X post reflected several questionable assumptions, but it was right to link a cultures highest aspirations and its education. One could be forgiven for watching the children’s movies popular in 1990s America and drawing the conclusion that what we most wanted was a life of ease, security and spontaneity—akin to the self-indulgence of an ancient tyrant....

　　Dirty Windows or Blurred Vision? 　　This devotional was written by Jim Liebelt 　　Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? —Matthew 7:3 　　I read a story about a business owner who constantly complained about the dirty windows of his competitor’s store, directly across the...

　　The new Department of Government Efficiency informs us that the federal government, through its Agency for International Development (AID), has been distributing taxpayer money for condoms in Gaza, DEI in Serbia and Ireland, and transgender stage productions in Columbia and Peru. (A longer list is here.) 　　These revelations should renew questions about what constitutional limits there are on federal expenditures....

　　Under Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court has demonstrated a willingness to enforce the Constitution’s separation-of-powers principles. This is welcome news for those who think that aspects of the administrative state run afoul of important constitutional lines separating the federal government’s three coequal branches. But not everyone has found the Roberts Court’s separation-of-powers jurisprudence to be cause for celebration. 　　A...

　　The new Department of Government Efficiency informs us that the federal government, through its Agency for International Development (AID), has been distributing taxpayer money for condoms in Gaza, DEI in Serbia and Ireland, and transgender stage productions in Columbia and Peru. (A longer list is here.) 　　These revelations should renew questions about what constitutional limits there are on federal expenditures....

　　A Prayer for Boldness to Share Your Faith with Your Neighbors 　　By: Emma Danzey 　　Bible Reading:“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” - Mark 12:30-31 　　Read or...