Through secret donations, billionaire gives away entire fortune
Chuck Feeney made a fortune in the duty-free shopping business, building a nest egg of $8 billion over the course of his life. It took 38 years, but he gave it all away.
Supreme Court fight puts political hypocrisy on full display
Seeing that the Senate wants to play political games with Supreme Court appointments, I think it’s only fair that the same rules be applied to 2020 that were put in place by the same leaders who controlled the chamber in 2016. Then change the Constitution.
Selective obedience is still disobedience
When our leaders decide they are not going to follow the laws as they are written, it sends a very strong message to the people they represent that obedience is optional for them, too.
A million dollar idea for the right techie
As a gift to humanity, I’ll pitch my solution to end spam calls and texts in hopes that someone who understand how cell phones work can make $1 million off this idea.
Journaling is not only healing, it’s a permanent record of growth and maturity
“Certain entries may be far from profound, yet they represent the day to day activities and thoughts that generate the narrative arc of life and, through this, contribute to our own development,” Rayanne wrote.
One in five evangelical Christians reject biblical gender teaching
I wonder if the reason self-professing evangelicals embrace the idea of gender fluidity is so high is likely because the respondent has a child, grandchild or friend who rejected his or her own sexuality.
Woman donates kidney to cop who locked her up years ago
“I just threw my phone down and the Holy Spirit told me right then that I had that man’s kidney,” said Jocelynn James, after reading that the police officer who arrested her a decade ago could die without a new one.
Legacy churches more likely to have religiously unaffiliated kids
Mainline Protestants had the highest percentage of teenage children who identified as religiously unaffiliated, at 24%. For evangelicals, that number was 12% and 15% for Catholics.
Conflicted about Cuties
It is puzzling to me why Netflix thought it wise to release Cuties during a time of heightened awareness worldwide to the epidemic of child exploitation and trafficking.
Are we prisoners of our own ‘echo chambers?’
We tend to cling to well-established ideas without considering any input from others that could lead to compromises and solutions we have been praying to receive for many years.