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The Biblical Remedy for the Corruption Cascade

The Biblical Remedy for the Corruption Cascade

In the previous blog entry I described the Corruption Cascade of James 1:14-15, which is the path from exposure to fleshly temptations, to thoughts that entice negative behaviors, to the leap from there to negative actions or "sins". Sins repeated often even cause an...

The Problem of Hate

The Problem of Hate

A few days ago, the horror of gun violence, was once again in the news with the three massage parlors shootings in Atlanta killing 8 women, 6 of whom were Asian, followed soon after by the grocery store shooting that took the lives of 10 people. In both cases the crimes were made possible because the motivation to do harm and the means to do so came together in a lethal union.

Economy vs Virus

Economy vs Virus

When the Ebola virus struck, experts in the field had warned about how lucky the world was at that time because that virus had characteristics that made it relatively difficult for rapid human to human transmission. But the warning was that if a new virus emerges that...

Being Christ in a Crisis

Being Christ in a Crisis

We are living in a very different kind of world right now. Traffic jams have disappeared across the world, while New York, London and Mumbai look more like ghost towns. The entire country of India with 1.3 billion people just started a 21 day lockdown, the most...

Dead Or Alive?

Dead Or Alive?

A month ago the US was chugging along blissfully even as China was reeling. Then the first person was diagnosed stateside on Jan 21st with the Covid-19 infection. At that point only the experts who work with infectious diseases for a living were raising the alarm. The...