Churches on the Decline
Kerby AndersonKerby Anderson Churches are closing in significant numbers. Even the secular press is starting to notice this trend. They attribute much of the decline to the lack of relevance of…
Value of the Dollar
Kerby Anderson One factor that should be considered during the ongoing congressional debate about spending and raising the debt ceiling is the declining value of the dollar. Each year the…
ESG Rules
Kerby Anderson Last year, when I was speaking at an open forum, I was asked a question about the ESG Index, which I answered. After the session, I had several…
Is All-Electric Inevitable?
Penna DexterPenna Dexter Last month the White House and the Consumer Product and Safety Commission denied that they’ve been working with climate groups to ban gas stoves after the GOP called…
Excess Deaths and Retirements
Kerby Anderson As more research studies are done on the impact of the Covid pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, we are getting a better picture of what happened in America. Two…
Great Outdoors
Kerby Anderson Teresa Mull wrote a fascinating article with an intriguing title: “Why lumberjacks are happy and you’re not.” A Bureau of Labor Statistics survey reported that lumberjacks and farmers…
High Prices
Kerby Anderson Why are food prices so high, especially in places where there are few or no grocery stores? Phillip Longman tackles that economic problem in his article “Everyday High…
Social Media and Mental Health
Kerby Anderson Yesterday I talked about social media and the teen brain. Today I want to talk about social media and its impact on teenagers’ mental health. An article in…
Social Media and the Brain
Kerby Anderson What is the effect of social media on the brain? Nicholas Carr made this observation fourteen years ago in an article in Atlantic. “Over the past few years,…
Chinese Demographic Crisis
Penna Dexter New numbers from China’s National Bureau of Statistics show that the ruling Communist Party has gotten too much of what it wished for. In the late 1970s, in…