Why do international aid agencies keep pouring clothing, foodstuff, housing materials, and even technology like solar panels into a severe disaster area for years and years? In the movie Poverty, Inc several interviewees talked about the negative effect that free stuff had on their business. Why doesn’t the money go to the business owners inside…
Photo by Christopher Burns on Unsplash The year the Bible arrived on the shores of the Hawaii Islands, King Kamehameha had just died. His son Liholiho broke the kapu system that enforced the death penalty for rules like if you looked upon the queen, or ate together with the opposite sex. This breakdown of the…
Photo by Jan Střecha on Unsplash Fake news changed how 200 million Indian WhatsApp users can forward their videos. False and misleading videos shared on social media led to 22 deaths in India this year. To combat the spread of fake news, Police superintendent Rema Rajeshwari in southern India’s Mahbubnagar district uses song and dance…
Less than one month from now, San Francisco’s citizens will vote on whether to tax their city’s wealthiest businesses to raise $300 million a year, half to be dedicated to permanent housing to get the homeless off the streets. In 2016 139.2 million went to subsidize rent to prevent former homeless people from eviction. This…
Photo by Yiran Ding on Unsplash Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad’s assurances that their chemical warfare stockpile had been destroyed in 2013, BBC News uncovered provable evidence that 106 separate chemical warfare incidents did indeed occur after that date. The dates of these gas attacks fall within the same window of time as Assad’s forces…
Photo by Carles Rabada on Unsplash A riveting and explicit movie about the suffering of blacks in prison called 13th is named after the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery in 1865. The documentary’s theme refers to the 13th Amendment’s clause “except as a punishment for crime” as a perpetuation of slavery under a different name….
Photo by Luke Palmer on Unsplash My wow moments were plentiful, and this is one highlight during the Justice week. The idea that sin entered the world though the climate of distrust towards God being the bigger problem than the idea of sin through disobedience. Perhaps it is semantics, but it meant more to me…
Photo by Bonnie Kittle on Unsplash Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice came swiftly at the end. President Trump declared to Kavanaugh, ‘You, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent’ during the public swearing in ceremony held in the East Wing of the White House. Kavanaugh endured three months of investigation by the…
Truth and Transformation’s first week laid the foundations of worldview according to scripture. Our teacher Emmanuel Entee described various places where our own understanding of the world clashes with God’s truth about the world He created. Our biblical worldview includes God as a Creator, that man caused the fall and sin to occur, that Jesus…
Photo by Mitch Lensink on Unsplash “The overcrowding is so extreme that asylum seekers spend as much as 12 hours a day waiting in line for food that is sometimes moldy. Last week, there were about 80 people for each shower, and around 70 per toilet, with aid workers complaining about raw sewage leaking into…