Over the past few days I have received insane Facebook status updates from a close friend.  The stream that followed has left me with profound respect and caused me to reflect on some lessons that can be learned.
14 January 2009 9:54 a.m. I am packing for Haiti… so many things bring to help. How [...]

A 48-hour New Year’s eve free-will offering netted a Southern California mega-church $2.4M to close their books on 2009.
Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church posted his URGENT LETTER on the church website on Wednesday and by close of business Thursday church members had stepped up to close their critical budget deficit of $900,000.
Warren’s Wednesday morning [...]

I’ve been rude to a friend of mine (Simon Phipps) on Twitter. On the one hand, why should I be rude to a friend of mine? On the other hand, if I don’t call him out for quoting stupid things (as if he agrees with them), then how much of a friend do [...]

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation announced this week that it will grant one of the largest privately sponsored school improvement programs in recent memory — several teacher performance improvement initiatives in more than four states.
The program will focus on efforts to improve teacher’s results rather than simply compensate them on “educational qualifications.”
Announced on Thursday, [...]

The existence of unalienable rights of individuals is an honored tradition in America, rooted in the philosophy of the classical liberal thinkers. The rights to life, liberty and property mean that nobody has the authority to take the life, liberty or property of anyone else. They apply to any person in any social [...]

One of the central messages of President Obama’s inaugural speech was that Americans now must sacrifice in a time of great hardship. This sounds noble, but also is rather vague. What kind of sacrifice is Obama talking about?
It would be fair to venture to guess that sacrifice for Barack Obama means a number [...]

“Eat your vegetables,” my mother told me when I was growing up in America in the 1950s. “Children are starving in Europe.”
My mother’s postwar economic geography sounds comically antiquated today; she could never have foreseen a world in which the euro is stronger than the U.S. dollar. But in another sense she was half a [...]

In Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks described a society in which the boundaries that once separated establishment from counter culture have disappeared. “The members of the new information age elite are bourgeois bohemians,” Brooks observed—“Bobos.”
The term might not have a congratulatory ring to it, but Brooks applauded Bobos as “the ones who can turn ideas [...]

There are many issues today regarding our food, where it comes from and why everyone doesn’t have enough. Some believe America directly affects the food resources overseas and drives mass starvation. The problem with this is that often it is only backed by the emotional argument regarding children starving around the globe. It is rarely, [...]