When my family ministered and lived in Iowa for a number of years our electricity and natural gas were provided by a company named MidAmerican Energy. I was always intrigued and impressed by their slogan, “Obsessively, relentlessly at your service.” …

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Have you ever broken an arm or leg, or suffered a penetrating injury to an extremity? While an injury (also called an insult in the trauma department) might be painful, often the complications are worse than the injury itself. Infection, …

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Karl Zinsmeister is vice president for publications at the Philanthropy Roundtable. A graduate of Yale University, he also studied at Trinity College Dublin. For almost 13 years he was editor-in-chief of The American Enterprise, and from 2006 to 2009 he …

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One of the cute movies we used to enjoy watching with the kids was called, “Babe, the Pig”. It was a humorous tale about farm animals learning to “keep their place” and the two rebellious animals who were always trying …

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The following is adapted from a speech [by Larry P. Arnn, entitled ‘Property Rights and Religious Liberty’] delivered on October 16, 2015, in Omaha, Nebraska, at a Free Market Forum sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Center for the Study of Monetary …

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A speaker during a regional conference was waxing eloquent as he sought to assess the reasons that society had taken such a drastic change in morals and attitudes over the past 30 years. His light-hearted but poignant conclusion was that …

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What is reason, and what is faith? Is there a difference between them? Can reason and faith be reconciled and harmonious, or are they eternally at odds with each other? Could we think of their association as reason and faith, …

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The following is adapted from a speech [by Larry P. Arnn, entitled ‘Property Rights and Religious Liberty’] delivered on October 16, 2015, in Omaha, Nebraska, at a Free Market Forum sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Center for the Study of Monetary …

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A culture is defined in the dictionary as the set of predominating attitudes and behaviors that characterize a group or organization. Societies, families, and churches have a culture. They all display a set of attitudes and behaviors that are acceptable …

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The following is adapted from a speech [by Larry P. Arnn, entitled ‘Property Rights and Religious Liberty’] delivered on October 16, 2015, in Omaha, Nebraska, at a Free Market Forum sponsored by Hillsdale College’s Center for the Study of Monetary …

Property Rights and Religious Liberty Read more »