Month: March 2017

Yesterday morning I was listening to a story on NPR about Chinese grocers in the Mississippi Delta region, and caught a moment of family prayer ending “I ask these things in Jesus’ name.” Well, I’ve heard that many times as an end to prayer, but I found myself wondering why we do that? I mean, isn’t Jesus God? So asking something of God in Jesus’ name is kind of like asking something of God in God’s name? Well, I Googled it and found a lot of sources addressing my exact question. I picked the two that went the deepest into […]

That’s not a question I’ve ever thought to ask, but it seems to be a question these days. So, who started the EPA, and do we still need to have it? Doesn’t all that government regulation hurt businesses? I’m going to explore this over a couple of posts. This is the first installment.   EPA Prehistory The Environmental Protection Agency was not formed in a vacuum; it was not created by environmental idealists in an effort to establish an ecological Utopia. It was created in response to widespread concerns about the effects of industrialization and high-intensity commercialized agriculture on human […]