What would happen if Walmart paid a living wage to all of its employees?
The answer may shock you:
As we remember Good Friday, today, we can look at this timetable of events and remember them throughout the day:
Our world is full of tough questions, so getting some help in answering those tough questions is always helpful. Moreover, it is important for Christians to get biblically based answers to these tough questions.
Here’s a free resource that will be sure to help you out:
While the developed world struggles to keep medical care affordable, the developing world is struggling to have medical care at all. One contributing factor to this is the shortage of doctors. It’s not cheap or easy to become a doctor, so it’s difficult for someone growing up in a developing country to afford the education in the first place, no matter how driven or intelligent they are.
This past month was World Down Syndrome Day and this excellent video was released in celebration, using Pharrell Williams’ Happy song.
Take a watch, your day will be better for it:
Paying taxes in the United States is a far more political subject than a civic activity.
It is hardly ever thought of as a means of good roads, quality law enforcement, and a communal means of caring for the less fortunate.
Curious to know how much and who is really carrying the tax burden in the United States, I decided to Google it. Here’s what I found:
With the World Cup and the Olympics coming to Brazil, the current state of the Brazilian State has come into focus. Trafficking and poverty — which often go hand-in-hand — is something that could end-up being changed for the better. You would hope that as Brazil is “cleaned-up” for the upcoming games, it would not only leave a lasting economic impression, but an overall betterment of the people in Brazil. But, as the start of the games grows increasingly close, it is looking more and more like this is not the case.
Say what you want about celebrities, Angelina Jolie has taken up a cause that is worth fighting for.
Jolie is fighting for the justice of thousands of women who survived Bosnia’s mass rapes.
One major hurdle that faces Africa is the lack of electricity.
To do something as simple as a home project, someone living in the West simply plugs-in a power tool and doesn’t give it a second thought. In the developing world, however, this isn’t the case. While kerosene lamps and candles are reserved for emergency use in the developed world, there are those who find them commonplace.
Thankfully, Akon Lighting Africa is aiming to change this tide that faces places like Africa.
With a mix of eye catching video, profound words from John Piper, and dramatic music, this video reminds us of the unreached peoples groups of Asia…
