Fill Your Prescription 　　This devotional was written by Jim Liebelt 　　Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. —Romans 12:2 　　One day, after not feeling well for some...

　　America seems to be buffeted by a host of existential crises. For starters, there is the (always) looming specter of climate change, the dramatic loss of an industrial base and uncertain transition to a digital economy, mass migration prompted by warfare and failed states, a dismal demographic forecast, and renewed racial unrest wrought by identity politics. Small wonder that we...

　　How to Endure the Worst of Trials 　　By Kelly Balarie 　　Bible Reading: 　　“Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” – 1 Timothy 6:12 NIV 　　Have you ever noticed that, as a culture, we glorify mountaintop moments but...

　　The Sherman Act (1890) declares “every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states, or with foreign nations” (15 U.S.C. §1; emphasis added) to be illegal. The statute’s adoption of “restraint of trade” language has misled some commentators—even brilliant ones like the late Harold Demsetz—into thinking that the Sherman...

　　For some time, public debate in the United States has questioned whether import tariffs are effective economic policy instruments. Can tariffs address trade imbalances and encourage domestic manufacturing? Is protection the key to securing prosperity? 　　Tariffs have historically played this role in the United States. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton implemented high tariffs to protect American...

　　At least since Edmund Burke, the right has looked askance at mixing mathematics and politics. The French revolutionaries and philosophes, with their elegantly geometric counties and their 10-hour days and their Year Zeroes, were trying to squeeze the unruly contours of human nature into their godlessly oversimplified concepts. But out of the crooked timber of humanity, many conservatives insist, nothing...

　　What Happens When a Husband Leads His Wife in Prayer 　　By Gina Smith 　　“I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me.” - Psalm 77:1 　　There’s something comforting that happens when my husband prays. Our prayers together often begin after the lights have gone out at the end of the day, right before we fall asleep....

　　Many Americans are frustrated by elite private universities. We’ve seen their hostility to diversity of opinion and free speech, politically imbalanced faculty and administrators, galling instances of antisemitism, enormous costs, unfair admissions processes, and more. For such reasons, public approval of higher education had been low and falling for some time, particularly on America’s right. And that was before the...

　　A Prayer to Embrace Community When It's Tempting to Isolate 　　By: Emma Danzey 　　Read or Listen Below: 　　Bible Reading: “For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” - Romans...

　　How Differences Shape and Strengthen Your Marriage 　　By: Rebecca Barlow Jordan 　　For You shaped me, inside and out.You knitted me together in my mother’s womb long before I took my first breath. I will offer You my grateful heart, for I am Your unique creation, filled with wonder and awe. You have approached even the smallest details with excellence; Your...

　　Comparison Is a Trap (Hebrews 12:1) 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　Hebrews 12:1 (ESV) Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us… 　　Comparison is an ugly manipulator, destined to destroy—and...

　　Saturday, February 1, 2025 　　The Wise and the Hows 　　“If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking.” (James 1:5 NLT) 　　Some people treat prayer like a Christmas list. They see the words “generous God” and launch into their wish list of materialistic items that they think...