INFLUENCE OVER TIME
I’ve been reading a great book about the history of ideas and culture. One thing that has struck me is how long it can take for an idea to take root. PICTURE: NeONBRAND/Unsplash An influential person will posit a view that goes against the current culture. In the next generation this view becomes a minority […]
FOOD SECURITY: DIGGING UP THE DIRT – COULD SOIL CONTAIN THE ANSWER TO FOOD SHORTAGES?
THIN LEI WIN, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, looks at the importance of global soil health to the future of our food…
Auschwitz’s horrors still haunt Poles living in nearby town
Oswiecim, PolandReuters Daniela Szelc says she is still haunted by the screams of people and barking of dogs carrying through the night from the nearby Nazi death camp Auschwitz three-quarters of a century ago. The 89-year-old Polish woman vividly recalls her World War II childhood in her Nazi-occupied homeland. Her family’s home in the town […]
ESSAY: WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD AUDIT THEIR WORDS, WORSHIP AND PRACTICES FOR ANTI-SEMITISM
In an article first published on Religion News Service, LAURA EVERETT, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, and DAN JOSLYN-SIEMIATKOSKI, professor of church history at Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas, look at what Christians can do to help stem the tide of anti-Semitism…