What just happened? On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its latest world economic outlook. In the report the IMF projects global economic growth in 2020 to fall to minus 3%. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the cumulative loss to the global GDP over 2020 and 2021 could be around $9 trillion, greater than …
Continue...What categorizes something as “political”? Answering this question has become an increasing problem for social media platforms as those who run them prepare for the upcoming election cycle and adjust to the new norm of their influential role in society. The benefits and drawbacks of political advertising are currently being debated by social media giants. …
Continue...What just happened? This week, Google revealed a data breach on it’s Google+ social network that uncovered private data for up to 500,000 of its users. The Wall Street Journal broke the story Monday and reported that Google feared making the breach public because of growing public distrust in the technology industry’s privacy policies and …
Continue...Redlining was first imposed upon the passing of the National Housing Act of 1934. The act created the government-sponsored Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, which was commissioned by the federal government to create “residential security maps” of 239 major cities across the United States. The HOLC was to create the districts in each city based on …
Continue...When I hear the name William Carey, I immediately think of gospel missions, and rightly so. After all, Carey has been labeled the father of Modern Missions. He has not carried this designation because he was the first missionary but because of his significance in turning the tide of evangelical thought in favor of prioritizing …
Continue...It's not a conspiracy that things fall apart in this world—it is just entropy driven by the force of our sin. We see it everywhere; we walk among the ruins: family, marriage, faith, education and so on. But this decline doesn't happen in a vacuum. For years now, scholars have tried to understand and explain …
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