I love thumbing through Tweets, skimming research, statistics and findings. But some, like this one, shock and disturb me. Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) By 2030, mental illness will cost the world more than cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases combined: ow.ly/GbPPR The current and projected economic burden that disease bears globally predicts that “the largest source of those […]
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We’re all familiar with Aesop’s fable “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”, which Beatrix Potters later adapted and popularized as “The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse”. While written in their day to extoll the virtues of simple, peaceful country living, the idiom could easily be adapted to portray today’s conversations about the disparity between urban […]
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There’s a lot to celebrate in the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision handed down today. However, there’s also a lot to chew on. As a friend of the Green family, I’m elated that the heavy burden they’ve been carrying for many long months has been lifted and they can proceed with their lives, running their […]
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The average response time after an emergency call is approximately 8 minutes or less as victims requiring resuscitation have little to no chance of survival after 10 minutes have elapsed [1]. When Typhoon Haiyan wreaked havoc in the Philippines, the American public, global charities, public figures[2] and countries rallied to donate hundreds of millions of […]
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While the hubbub has died down a bit, I can’t stop thinking about “The Cadillac Man” commercial. It ruffled a lot of feathers when it first aired during the Olympic Games[1] in February. Not only did this new “American icon” insinuate that only Americans are hard workers, but derogatorily characterized other countries as being lazy; […]
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My good friend, Rice Broocks penned God’s Not Dead: Evidence of God in an age of Uncertainty after he personally encountered an extraordinary number of people wrestling through their doubts and disbelief in God. Most—like his own atheist older brother who desired to talk him out of his faith in Christ—ended up realizing that there […]
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