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Dr. Ana Steele: Champion of the Dalit

Anitra Parmele
2 Sep 2010
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Dr. Ana Steele is equally at home in the halls of Congress and the halls of academia. She has a masters degree from Georgetown University and masters and doctorate degrees from Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at Harvard and lobbied members of Congress for the Dalit people of India. She is intelligent, articulate, and passionate. Her passion is symbolized by a picture on her bookshelf. Among the tomes in Italian, Greek, and Russian is a close-up shot of a young Indian girl whose wide brown eyes demand your attention. What is not immediately apparent is that at the time […]

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God does wonders through a willing heart

Marcie Blackstone
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I never was a writer.  I never kept a diary.  I never liked English class.  I confess – I even plagiarized most of my school papers.  But that didn’t matter to God when he called my husband and me to publish a Christian Newspaper in South Florida.  After much prayer, research, planning, and a trip to the library, Grif, a restaurant manager, became publisher and I, an interior designer, became editor within a few short months.  Neither of us had any clue what we were doing, but we were zealous in our young faith and hopeful that God was going […]

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Newsflash: Stalin liberates Normandy

Dr. Paul Kengor
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Call it another Twilight Zone moment, another ignominious contribution to the “you-can’t-make-this-up” category. First, Mao Zedong was honored by oblivious New Yorkers last October, with their Empire State Building aglow in red and yellow to commemorate the birth of People’s Republic of China. Mao’s nearest rival for the trophy for top mass murderer in history was Joseph Stalin. Perhaps other clueless Americans could find a way to honor Stalin, too – maybe closer to Washington, the nation’s capital.Hey, don’t laugh. The National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., has done just that, erecting a statue of Stalin. No, I’m not kidding.Predictably, […]

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Angel Food Ministries for the Body and Soul

Karen Fernandez
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Hundreds of financially strapped South Floridians are putting food on the table with a little help from an Angel. Angel Food Ministries is a national, faith-based, non-profit organization, provides food relief to people of all income levels through host sites around the country. Each Angel Food Ministries box, dubbed “blessings in a box,” consists of brand-name foods at a cost of $30–half of what consumers would pay at a grocery store. “First of all, for the consumer, I want them to know that there are people that genuinely care about helping them through a difficult time,” said Pastor Joe Wingo, […]

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Rethinking the corporate income tax

Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
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It is hard to find anything positive to say about the corporate income, or profits, tax. InefficiencyEconomists across the ideological spectrum agree that the corporate profits tax is woefully inefficient:– It warps corporate decision-making, inducing expenditures made only to reduce a company’s tax liability.– The compliance costs are astronomical, often exceeding 60 cents for every dollar of revenue that the government raises from taxing corporate profits. How would you like to spend $6,000 per year calculating that you owe Uncle Sam $10,000?– It fosters overreliance on debt. Corporations often need to borrow money to replace funds that government taxed. In […]

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Government stimulus: Out of sight, out of mind

Dr. Shawn Ritenour
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The President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released its most recent quarterly report on the effects of President Obama’s stimulus plan. Not surprisingly, the CEA praises this monumental Keynesian scheme, crediting the stimulus for saving or creating 3.6 million jobs and increasing the amount of private funds invested in the economy. What should we make of such claims? We would all do well to remember the wisdom of Frederic Bastiat: shopkeepers are not better off after having their windows broken by hoodlums, just as the victims of theft do not have their economies stimulated by thieves. Sure, the window […]

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A bad review for Anne Rice’s latest story

Noel Rabinowitz
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In 1998, Vampire Chronicles author Anne Rice generated controversy when she renounced her vampire ways and embraced Christianity. She has now created even greater controversy with the revelation that she has “quit being a Christian. I’m out.”Revealing this dramatic plot twist on Facebook, Rice wrote that she had abandoned Christianity because, “It’s simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I’ve tried. I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”Still, Rice wrote the following day: “My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from […]

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Growing deeper in faith

Allen Baumgarten
5 Aug 2010
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Faith is a necessary component of our growing closer to God and experiencing all that He has for us. Yet, it can feel like our faith is in short supply at times. God understands this about us and encourages us to grow in our trust in Him. The Bible is filled with men and women who trusted God, despite what they saw happening around them. One person of faith who stands out in particular is King David of Israel.David was born into a family of modest means. He was the youngest of the children and had a number of older […]

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Index funds: A smart and safe investment.

Rob West
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Every stock investor makes the fundamental decision, whether they realize it or not, to either attempt to beat the market or if they are content to merely match the market. To beat the market, you must use actively-managed funds – that is, funds that frequently trade stocks in an effort to hold only those that will do particularly well. But, for the average investor, attempting to select the right stocks at the right time can be quite a daunting task. To merely match the market’s returns, passively managed “index” funds mirror the performance of a market index as their managers […]

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Kicking against the goads?: The meaning and message

Dr. Tommy Boland
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“It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” What exactly does that phrase mean? “Kicking against the goads” is not something we hear often in our day-to-day conversation! And yet, in Acts 26:14, the master Teacher delivers a powerful life lesson in His exquisite, parabolic style, which is simple, straightforward, self-explanatory, and is designed to sanctify every blood-bought saint. Let’s examine this verse with the goal of gleaning two powerful truths: the meaning and the message of the oxgoad. Truth #1 – The meaning of the oxgoad First, the oxgoad is a long pole or stick with a […]

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