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...

　　A Prayer to Keep Jesus as My Refuge 　　By Chelsey DeMatteis 　　“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, ‘My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.’” - Psalm 91:1-2 　　Blessed are those who take refuge in Him, can I get...

　　“A strange light” was Winston Churchill’s description of the crisis unfolding after Austria-Hungary issued its ultimatum to Serbia on July 23, 1914. Foreign Secretary Edward Grey completed the optical analogy on August 3, prophesying that the “lamps are going out” across Europe and would not be “lit again in our lifetime.” The next day, Britain and Germany were at war....

　　Kenny Wallace doesnt have a lot of people to talk to in Choctaw. 　　But he does have a Bible app with a new translation of Scripture in the Indigenous language that his ancestors spoke. And it has an audio sync feature that allows him to listen to the words aloud, to hear how they sound. 　　Sometimes, thats the only Choctaw...