Bev and Phil Haas My husband tells me I’m hanging on too tightly to our 15-year-old son. I know someday he will be on his own, but that’s not now. So what do I do in the meantime? Patrick Henry’s famous statement, “Give me liberty or give me death,” could well describe the internal urge […]
By Sam E. Stone Micah began his prophecy with a scathing indictment of all who held administrative and judicial positions in the state (chapters 1, 2). These leaders had been placed in authority to serve the people, while in reality they were using their status to rob them (Micah 3:1, 2). The prophet described the […]
Melissa Wuske Death Row Inmate Exonerated Anthony Ray Hinton was freed after serving 30 years on Alabama’s death row. He was convicted of the 1985 murders of two restaurant managers—but the conviction was based on shoddy evidence and the pressure to get a culprit behind bars. “He was convicted because he’s poor,” said Bryan Stevenson, […]
By Christy Barritt Sixty is the New Middle Age A new study says that 60—not 50—is the new middle age. Researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Stony Brook University have been researching age using projections of Europe’s population until the year 2050. Though conventional definitions considered people over age 65 old, […]
By David Faust In his classic book, Knowing God, J. I. Packer wrote, “Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you.” How do we view God? Some deny his existence altogether (atheists) […]
