Boo the Moo
Scientists at the University of Oxford recently recommended a new way for the UK to raise £700m ($920m USD) for their healthcare system: a meat tax. Precisely, they recommend a 14% tax on red meat and 79% of processed meat. Researchers believe the meat tax could prevent 6,000 deaths per
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Adventist Day
A few weeks ago, the Brazilian state of Pará passed a law declaring October 22 to be “Adventist Day,” after Sao Paulo did the same last year. Both states together represent 52 million people, or 25% of the entire nation. This allows the Adventist church to use public spaces to
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enditnow
It was hard to avoid the bombshell report out of Pennsylvania, where investigators discovered that more than 50 Catholic priests had sexually abused hundreds of children over forty years. Bishops in the U.S. have paid out $4,000,000,000 since 1950 in order to settle claims with victims. This came on the
Continue readingA Happy Christian
Have you ever noticed that a happy Christian has a habit of desiring to serve others? Perhaps you have observed that Christians are happiest when they are able to do something for someone else? I have noticed this week during Vacation Bible School Experience just how many happy Christians we
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Q is for Quits: of life, risks and leadership
I never really liked risk. Well, let me rephrase that. I romanticize risk and love the idea of it. I praise the people who are risk-takers and enjoy reading about people who stubbornly dare to do great things despite the odds. I am willing to take the risk…. up until
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Clucky not lucky
Losing a loved one is difficult. That’s what the Sword family in Texas is going through. They recently took out an obituary in the local paper for their lost loved one, “Big Mama – 2012-2018.” What’s odd, of course, is that Big Mama was a chicken. Big Mama was cooped
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Solomon’s Choice
Two prostitutes came before King Solomon with a strange story. One said, “We live in the same house. We both gave birth around the same time. But during the night she rolled over on her infant and killed him, then stole my baby boy as I slept, replacing him with
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