After President Trump canceled all flights into the United States from China and Iran due to the Coronavirus pandemic on January 31, 2020, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tweeted this out on the same day: “The Trump Admin’s expansion of its un-American travel ban is a threat to our security, our values and the …
How Christian Student Organizational Leaders Can Respond to Challenges Concerning Their Governance
The beauty of the university is in its initial form – the unification of diversity. People are encouraged in universities to develop the knowledge, abilities and skills to critically examine a variety of alternative points of view and to solve complex problems. In such a rich environment, students are encouraged to learn about new ideas, …
Early Christian Martyrdoms: Persecution in the Roman Empire
In the book of Acts (5: 34-39), Luke records the prescient words of a Pharisee called Gamaliel, who had questioned the wisdom of the persecution of Peter and other apostles: “But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men …
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The Hurricane Paul and Luke Battled
My family and I live in Florida and were recently visited by a powerful hurricane named Irma. As I’m writing this, the Weather Channel has identified another powerful hurricane churning out in the ocean: Maria. Right now, models are predicting it will avoid Florida but our friends in the Carolinas may not be so fortunate. …
Stalin’s and Khrushchev’s Anti-Religious Campaigns
The intention of this very brief blog is to share a post from the United States Library of Congress on the campaign against the religious from the Soviet Union under Stalin and Khrushchev between the 1920s and 1985. Source: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/anti.html “The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an ideological objective the elimination …
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