Five centuries after the Reformation triggered a religious course correction for many people, it nevertheless caused many splits; Ritual vs. the Bible, Protestant vs. Catholic, North vs. South, and a series of long and bloody religious wars across Europe. Modern-day…

“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father. Source: from his writings, 1758.
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In his first extensive interview since leaving the Trump administration, former White House chief strategist and Roman Catholic, Steve Bannon said the Obama-era DACA policy protects nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children from deportation. When…

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything” George Bernard Shaw
, (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist.
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Life for many has moved outdoors in the quake-shocked city of Juchitan, where a third of the homes are reported uninhabitable and repeated aftershocks have scared people away from many structures still standing. The city is littered with rubble from…

“Power can rarely be wielded effectively over long periods of time unless it is perceived by the community in which it is exercised as a form of legitimate authority, not as mere coercive force” Brian Tierney
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Four years ago, the British parliament voted to redefine marriage in the United Kingdom without giving the people the opportunity to have a voice in such an enormously significant issue through a referendum or other means. Australia is at least…

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws” Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th US President.
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Evangelist James Robison believes that God is speaking through the hurricanes and that Christians should pray and seek God’s will. The crises that Americans have faced and are facing will only be resolved if we come together “like a family,”…

“…Human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice…” George Orwell, [Eric Arthur Blair], (1903-1950) British author, discussing Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Source Reference Review of…

Less than 24 hours after publishing our Prophetic Intelligence Briefing on the National Day of Prayer for Houston in which we predicted that evangelicals would claim the hurricane was a judgment from God, the following item came across my desk….

“Believe me, it is not failing to speak out with promptitude and energy that is the matter with you; it is having nothing consistent or valuable to say.” Matthew Arnold, (1822-1887).
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