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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Mollie’s Sermon
1,200 people showed up at the memorial service for Mollie Tibbetts, the murdered Iowa college student. When politicians began to use her death to drum up support for their policies, the family shot back: “You do not have permission to callously use this tragedy… No, we reclaim our Mollie” And
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A Little Sugar Sugar
LifeWay Research recently found that 70% of Christians believe “God wants me to prosper financially.” 25% of Christians believe that “to receive material blessings from God, I have to do something for God.” Christians in the American South are most likely to believe these things, as are Pentecostals, Baptists, and
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The Locker Room of Life
When Japan defeated Russia’s navy in 1905 the world was shocked. It was the first time in history that an Asian nation had beaten a European power. Back then, people talked about Japan’s “national character,” which was supposedly warlike and disciplined. Japan still talks about their “national character.” In 2013,
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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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Streets of Dark Gold
I don’t know if it’s too late, but I want to make a suggestion to the heavenly maintenance crew. Instead of streets of gold, can we have streets of chocolate? (It won’t melt; this is heaven, after all.) I was inspired by a recent Polish trucking accident, where twelve tons
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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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Spiderman For a Day
The image of a toddler hanging from a balcony was all over the news this past week. So was the image of the man many are calling “spiderman.” This isn’t Peter Parker, but Mamoudou Gassama, the 22-year-old Malian immigrant who scaled up the face of a Paris apartment to rescue
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