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People don't "take jobs" they create them. With more people comes more demand for, well, everything. That doesn't jive with actual reality. What actually happens is a flood of migrants means a lot more drain on social services, far more than the migrants can afford to pay in. If having mo...

This opens another can of worms in conservative Anabaptist settings. Why aren't there more full time, financially supported pastors in our circles? Especially in larger churches? We don't hesitate to fully support missionary pastors in foreign settings. Yet domestically, we expect them to make thei...

People don't "take jobs" they create them. With more people comes more demand for, well, everything.

I would think the golden rule would be a good place to start when we considered people who are moving, that is migrating. How would I want to be treated if I were in their shoes?

There aren’t enough resources in America for everyone to have long term care “insurance”. Basically, it’s just impossible to everyone to have small families yet expect stellar care for the last 10 years of their life. The entire world would have to be reconstructed into a giant nursing home. Once t...

Joshbgood, I understand. I, too, seldom heard it preached on, and the one time I can remember, it had a Reformed slant. This concerns me. I feel like it has been avoided, because it can be difficult passage to understand. And because of the influence of Reformed theology in our culture, we tend to ...

:laugh I think that a good teacher of theology will read what the Bible has to say on a topic, all that the Bible has to say on that topic, and stop right there. If more than one conclusion could be taken from scripture, and the teacher uses logic and certain verses as trump verses for laying out th...

I talk about this model regularly, but so far I can't get much traction...folks have a fundamental mindset.

Josh seems to be speaking from his experience in Midwest churches and or CMC. Where Miller's and Yoders proliferate. Bur those groups derive from Amish lineage.

Despite Stefanik's insistence, the term Intifada simply isn't a call for genocide. Generally, the term intifada refers to a violent uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Indeed, the First Intifada, which is generally dated from 1987 to 1993 mostly consisted of rock thro...

The examples cited and pointed to by Jewish organizations and Congress were not even actual calls for genocide. They were students who were chanting support for "intifada" and students chanting "from the river to the sea" which might are calls for struggle and for a Palestinian ...