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The Bible describes a time of darkness and deception that will come upon the earth. At the End of History, we believe we are living in such times. To that end, we work to point out the truth of God amid the chaos of our deceptive times. There is hope beyond the despair, and light can shine even in the context of darkness.

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Genocide Language

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A few years ago, my friend Brian Butler and I released a podcast series on the history of genocide called “Never Again, Again.” One of the key takeaways of that series was how, although we wring our hands and...
Society

Worst Year On Record…So Far

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The shift in weather patterns toward the extreme is being noted worldwide and occurring at an alarming rate. A recent article in the Washington Post pointed out that just as the world recorded its hottest month of June on...
Society

The Green Revolution – Food Crisis Part 7

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After the unique economic factors (see yesterday's post), the second solution to the crisis of these debtor nations in the early 1980s is known to history as the Green Revolution. The Green Revolution actually began earlier in the 1960s, but...
Society

The Borrowers Become Servants to the Lenders – Food Crisis Part 6

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In our last post in this series, we looked at how benevolent aid became dysfunctional politics and began reshaping the global food system in the 1960s and 70s.  Two significant factors contributed solutions to the crisis as well the...
Society

Benevolent Aid Becomes Pragmatic Economics – Food Crisis Part 5

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By 1956, food aid accounted for half of all US economic aid throughout the world.  From the 1950s onward, food became a central piece of American aid throughout the world and a foundational element in the evolving US-dominated global...
Society

How We Ruined the World – Food Crisis Part 4

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The end of World War II resulted in the near total destruction of Europe’s powerful nations and the global complex of colonialism they erected over the course of the prior century. It was only a few years into the...
Society

How We Saved the World – Food Crisis Part 3

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Human civilization’s relationship to food supply has always been a relatively tense one. A delicate balance between food supply and growing population demand marks much of our history. The oldest recorded human history captures the disruptive nature of famines...
Politics

The Lands of Excess – Food Crisis Part 2

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While famine rages in one part of the world, in other parts obesity is climbing to record rates. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued reports in 2016 detailing how the US obesity epidemic was getting worse, not...
Society

The Rise in Scale and Frequency of Natural Disasters

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Older readers will remember a time when natural disasters were significant events. Today, they seem all too common. Does it feel like it is getting worse? It is! As the global economy stretches beyond capacity and national debt burdens...
Society

The Age of Polycrisis

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Welcome to the age of polycrisis. This is the age when what we once imagined as topics of dystopian fantasy has become the present daunting reality. It is where the predictable outcomes and arrangements of the world economy and...
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The Crisis of Christian Conscience as Gaza Descends Into Genocide

On July 17, Israeli strikes on a church in Gaza killed three and injured several others. This attack is...

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