Weekly Overview: 　　As children of God, we have been given a new home and a new hope. May your heart be set aflame by the joy and purpose of living out God’s command to live for heaven this week: “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right...

　　What to Remember When Your Life Feels Small 　　By Deidre Braley 　　Bible Reading 　　At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you...

　　Economics is about the unseen, in Frederic Bastiat’s famous framing. The unseen includes concepts such as opportunity cost and unintended consequences, and that’s the dimension in which economics adds value. 　　Journalists specialize in seeing things. Their job is to report, to observe, to notice. When they do that well, they add value. Because their professional training does not lend itself...

　　I thank Russell Greene for his rich, critical review of my recent book The Third Awokening (“Equal Rights, not Equity,” August 6). 　　Russell and I agree that woke cultural socialism, with its exclusive focus on achieving equal outcomes and psychological harm protection for minorities, reduces human flourishing in society. But a response pointing to where we agree is hardly going...

　　Can All Religions Be True? 　　“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” -John 14:6 　　A story is told about two men who lived in a small village and got into a terrible dispute that neither of them could resolve. So one night, the first man went to the...

　　Choosing Joy on the Hard Days 　　By: Maggie Meadows Cooper 　　Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, yet I will rejoice in the Lord!-...

　　This—¯_(ツ)_/¯—is what comes to mind when people ask me to explain how Australia ran fourth in the Olympics yet also entered Raygun—the Paris Olympiad’s Eddie the Eagle or Eric the Eel—into an event. 　　The 2024 Olympics had two blokes win in women’s boxing, a US gymnast who got a medal taken off her, given to her, then swiped away again...

　　Sticking It Out through the Worst 　　By: Betsy St. Amant Haddox 　　He answered,“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but...

　　Weekly Overview: 　　As children of the Most High God, we have been granted access to unconditional, tangible, and perfect love. All we need we have in relationship with our Father in heaven. He longs to reveal himself to us as a loving, real Father. He longs for us to live in the fullness of restored relationship with him. He longs...

　　Consumption or Contribution? 　　By: Whitney Hopler 　　Bible Reading 　　“Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.’” – Matthew 9:37-38, ESV 　　In our materialistic world, we are constantly bombarded with opportunities for consumption. It’s easy to spend our...

　　As the past month aptly demonstrates, political pollingoften swings wildly. Researchers, such as the late political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset, have advised against putting much stock in their reliability, warning everyone to be very skeptical of polling on presidential elections in particular. Unfortunately, they have offered no alternative. Yet one exists, if laws do not prohibit it: Betting markets have...

　　Professor Donald Drakeman’s response to my essay on direct and indirect taxes presents an opportunity to offer some background on constitutional originalism. 　　My thesis was that the longstanding uncertainty over the Constitution’s distinction between direct and indirect taxes persists because probative Founding-era evidence continues to be overlooked. In addition to references in eighteenth-century literature, that evidence consists of (1) uncontradicted...