Prevalent in conservative politics today is a common theme of animosity towards the “welfare state.” Programs that go by a number of names like “the government dole”, or simply stated, “welfare programs.” At best, this nomenclature includes any number of subsets of agencies and programs depending on how informed and how principled the objector claims
There is an old adage that gets repeated from time to time in church circles regarding the merits of a “child-like” faith. It tends to go something like this: “We ought to trust in God with the faith of a child, a faith that resembles a child’s faith in the nature of their parents.” The
For almost one hundred years now, the focal point for so much international chaos has been the Middle East. And one of the underlying hubs that ties together many disparate events there has been the existence of and various relationships with the modern state of Israel. The land that it occupies has been actively contested