The COVID pandemic has brought various international organizations, especially the World Health Organization, to the forefront in the news this year. As a result, citizens around the world are seeing both the promise and the flaws of such agencies.Tomorrow Dr. E. Calvin Beisner will be a panelist in a worldwide Livestream discussion hosted by Truth and Transformation, a ministry led by Cornwall Alliance Senior Fellow and Indian Christian philosopher and statesman Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi. The topic … [Read more...]
Test All Things, Hold Fast What Is Good—But How?
A reader recently forwarded to us an email from a fine Christian ministry that bemoaned the proliferation of "fake news" and other bad thinking on the Internet in the novel Coronavirus pandemic. She asked, "The very thing I've been thinking, and one of the reasons I dislike watching the news — too many lies. Who do you believe? What do you believe? Your thoughts?"Ah, the perennial questions: Whom do you believe? What do you believe?But better is the question, How do you decide what to believe? … [Read more...]
Choosing the Economy over People’s Lives?
The current novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has stimulated all kinds of questions. As more and more people begin to demand that the more extreme measures to curb its spread---those that are shuttering a large part of our economy---come to an end, one of the most common is whether such thinking involves prioritizing the economy over lives. Is it not pro-life to insist that we continue the widespread shutdown of our economy in the name of saving lives?That's what drew this email from one … [Read more...]
How Many Uninfected People Will the “War on the Coronavirus” Kill?
Following is the text of Cornwall Alliance’s first “From the Stacks” livestream program with Founder and National Spokesman E. Calvin Beisner on Facebook, April 7, 2020. We post it here because Internet technical problems made some parts inaudible to viewers. Today, let’s talk about the novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19, and our governments’ responses to it. I’m going to argue that our governing authorities need to expand the sources from whom they seek advice about how to deal with this … [Read more...]
A Prayer for South Asia
Dear Father, we come to You in prayer for South Asia.Lord, bless the South Asian nations and help them achieve a speedy recovery from the on-going coronavirus crisis. Help their economies to bounce back strongly, as income of billions is dependent on the health of economy.Lord, we remember the great things You‘ve done for this part of the world: beginning with the agricultural revolution in the 1970s and continuing with the fast economic growth of the early 21st century. You enabled this … [Read more...]
A Prayer for Africa
Lord, we pray for the continent of Africa.Father, we have heard about the abject poverty there and some of us have even been there. We pray that You will uplift the lives of the people in these countries and use us as Your agents of change wherever You have placed us.In Africa, we pray for political stability in the countries of Somalia, Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and other countries. Change the hearts and minds of the leaders of Africa that they will stand for the poor and fight poverty … [Read more...]
A Prayer for Billions to Rise Out of Poverty
Dear Father in Heaven,We thank You for your continuous work among the men and women of this world, making them better each day. You have made us with unique gifts and callings, and we acknowledge the work of Your hand in the economic development of post-industrial era.Lord, as we stare upon uncertain future due to the economic impact of the coronavirus, we ask you to make a way for the future. Just as You helped the world overcome so many diseases and pestilences in the past, we ask You to … [Read more...]
A Prayer for China and the Chinese People
Dear Father in Heaven,We thank You for blessing us with such a diverse world, with people groups all around the world. Though we speak different tongues and have different cultural aspects, You have made us all in your image and we know that you want to win back people from every tribe of this world.After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in … [Read more...]
Lord, We Ask Your Forgiveness
Lord God, you are Our Creator, Our Savior, our Holy Spirit, so we come before you now in the midst of this serious coronavirus situation to ask your forgiveness and to ask your help to be good stewards of your Creation, good witnesses to your Life and Resurrection, and great encouragers to everyone who needs to hear your Good News, especially those who are in need physically or spiritually. Dad, be with us in times of trials and tribulations, give us the grace to use wisdom, knowledge and … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Prayer: I bind unto myself today
I bind unto myself today the strong Name of the Trinity, by invocation of the same, the Three in One, and One in Three. I bind this day to me for ever, by power of faith, Christ's Incarnation; his baptism in Jordan river; his death on cross for my salvation; his bursting from the spicèd tomb; his riding up the heavenly way; his coming at the day of doom: I bind unto myself today. I bind unto myself the power of the great love of cherubim; the sweet "Well done" in judgment hour; the service of … [Read more...]
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