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Sep 14 2017

What Unintended Consequences Accompany Mandatory Evacuations for Hurricanes?

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 14, 2017

While Hurricane Irma was making its way through the Caribbean as a Category 5 storm, the National Hurricane Center predicted that it would veer north before reaching Florida; then that it would veer north a little later, skirting Florida’s Atlantic coast and bringing devastation; then that it would veer north still later, plowing right into […]

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Sep 14 2017

How Much Do We Really Need Big Brother for Disaster Relief?

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 14, 2017

USA Today reports that 80% of disaster relief aid following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma comes from faith-based organizations—denominations, individual churches, non-denominational charitable organizations. For anyone familiar with Marvin Olasky’s The Tragedy of American Compassion, that’s no surprise. In what Bill Bennett called “the most important book on welfare and social policy in a decade. Period,” Olasky

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Sep 12 2017

WHILE THE WEST BURNS, NO ONE NOTICES

By John L. Moore / September 12, 2017

Twenty-nine years ago record drought and fires hit the West and no one seemed to notice. Frustrated, I sent query letters to the three largest East Coast newspapers, and to my surprise, The New York Times answered. My article on the West’s drought and fires ran in August 1988 in the New York Times Magazine and was syndicated and

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Sep 11 2017

Post-Irma, Reasons for Thanksgiving in Florida

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 11, 2017

This morning my wife, Debby, and I walked around our neighborhood—99 homes out of a total subdivision of about 2,400 homes—in southwest Broward County, FL, surveying the surprisingly light damage Hurricane Irma left. A few trees were down, one directly across the street, another, around the corner, on a car. Many tree branches and palm

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Sep 8 2017

Hurricane Irma—She’s Already Something Personal

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 8, 2017

You’ll forgive me if I’ve been a little distracted lately, and if this blog post seems a little scattered. It’s somewhat difficult to focus when you’re expecting, in a little less than 24 hours, the onset of a hurricane that could destroy tens of thousands of houses near you—with no guarantees that yours won’t be

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Sep 5 2017

URGENT: A Call to Prayer for Millions in the Path of Hurricane Irma

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 5, 2017

As I write, Hurricane Irma has reached Category 5, with maximum sustained winds of 175 mph. The National Hurricane Center calls it “the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic basin outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico in the NHC records” (emphasis added). The NHC says Irma “will bring life-threatening wind, storm surge, and

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Sep 1 2017

Dear Media: We Don’t Have to Agree to Have Intelligent, Friendly, Discourse

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 1, 2017

If you search the Web for my name and Cornwall Alliance, you’ll see that we’ve been the target of vicious attacks over the years, including several just in the past couple of months. They’re built on fallacies like guilt by association, post hoc, ad hominem abusive, ad hominem circumstantial, straw man, hasty generalization, and more, and thoroughly misrepresent our position

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Sep 1 2017

Can Logic Help Us Improve Discussion of Creation Care?

By E. Calvin Beisner / September 1, 2017

For twenty centuries, Christian thinkers have emphasized the importance of logic. They have recognized logic as one element of God’s very essence. John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” points to that truth. The Greek word there translated “Word,” Logos, has a range

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Aug 31 2017

Is Rising Sea Level Threatening Norfolk and the Chesapeake Bay Area?

By E. Calvin Beisner / August 31, 2017

One way for environmentalists, who tend to be on the political Left, to curry favor with conservatives is to try to tie their concerns to national defense, or “military readiness.” That’s certainly become a major theme of warnings about global warming-driven sea-level rise of late. Tying global warming, sea-level rise, and national defense together stretches

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Aug 30 2017

Illinois Family Institute Posts Video of Dr. Beisner’s Presentation on Climate Change and Christian Responsibility

By David E. Smith / August 30, 2017

[This article is adapted from its original version on Barbwire.com.] Last year I was at lunch with an evangelist. After the meal, he handed our waitress a Gospel tract. I wanted to reinforce his compassion, so I told the young lady that her relationship with God was the most important thing in the world. She

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