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Stewardship Notes
- What Kind of Person Makes a Good Earth Steward?
(April 26, 2013)
April 26, 2013
Dear Friend,
 Sometimes we can get so into the thick of things that we miss the big picture. We get our priorities out of balance—family overwhelms church, or church family; work overwhelms fellowship, or fellowship work; nutritional precision overwhelms enjoyment of God’s good...
- Learning about God from Dark Lightning, Sprites, Blue Jets, Elves, Crawlers
(April 17, 2013)
by E. Calvin Beisner
April 17, 2013
Sometimes we just need to shut our mouths, stand back, and watch.
 I’ve been driven to that many times while watching storms—one 30 years ago rushing out of the north at my little house in north-central Michigan, one 25 years ago over the New Mexico desert...
- The Real Root, and the Real Cure, of Eco-Fears
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (April 3, 2013)
April 3, 2013
If there’s anything that almost universally describes today’s environmental movement, it’s fear: fear of global warming, fear of sea-level rise, fear of rapid species extinction, fear of dead zones in the oceans, fear of topsoil erosion, fear of running out of oil, fear of finding...
- Do You Have a Schizophrenic Heart? For the Sake of the Poor, Maybe You Should!
(March 6, 2013)
by E. Calvin Beisner
March 6, 2013
What really works to lift whole societies out of poverty? Anyone who thinks it’s largely charitable activity needs to learn some history. As Henry Hazlitt showed in The Conquest of Poverty, charity’s never played a leading or even a major role.
Not that...
- Do You Have a Schizophrenic Heart? For the Sake of the Poor, Maybe You Should!
By Peter Beisner (March 4, 2013)
by E. Calvin Beisner
March 6, 2013
What really works to lift whole societies out of poverty? Anyone who thinks it’s largely charitable activity needs to learn some history. As Henry Hazlitt showed in The Conquest of Poverty, charity’s never played a leading or even a major role.
Not that...
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