Save the planet by not having kids. What would you say?
God says that children are a blessing and when we start with that premise, then we’ll stop looking at more children as simply more mouths to feed. Then we’ll recognize that we come with hands that can produce, and brains that can solve problems. We reflect our Maker’s creativity in that we can even create resources out of refuse.
Are people really like crumpled paper?
We should teach our kids not to insult others, but we shouldn’t teach them that words will scar them for life. There is such a thing as apologizing, and being forgiven…and, as this article relates, that can even lead to stronger relationships than before.
The “noble lies” of COVID-19
In James 5:12. God tells us that we should let our yes be yes and our no be no. What happens when we won’t do so can be seen in Americans’ response to their country’s top health official, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has owned up to telling “noble lies.” The problem with lies, no matter how well-meaning, is that if you are willing to tell them, people don’t have a reason to trust you when it matters.
Where did this limit of 1.5°C of warming come from? (5 min/1 hr read)
The UNs’ IPCC 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C Warming “expressly stated that it did not complete a cost-benefit analysis of limiting warming to 1.5°C” and only “argued that 2°C warming would have bigger impacts than 1.5°C, but it did not say that the policies to hit the lower target would be worth the cost.” The biblical take: sensible people count the cost (Luke 14:28-32).
The link leads to a short 5-minute article, and also a longer 1-hour report.
100 years ago Hitler became leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
The Nazis are sometimes portrayed as having been Christian and capitalist, but they were not nearly.
Jordan Peterson with a problem for atheism (6 min)
Peterson points out – with the help of Fyodor Dostoevsky – that without God, it isn’t reasonable to be moral. Peterson isn’t speaking as a Christian here, but even as a quasi agnostic/theist he recognizes you can’t have good without God.
