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Stealing?
America has a shoplifting epidemic.
Stores lose more than $13 billion worth of goods in shoplifting in the United States each year.
The 2022 Retail Security Survey found that 8 out of 10 retailers self-reported increased incidents of “violence and aggression” across 2022. In total, thirty-two states have passed legislation addressing organized retail crime. Close to half of retailers say that their loss prevention budgets were increased in 2022.
One might think organized
Deciding!
Decision making? It might all be a mirage, they say—researchers from Johns Hopkins University and The Ohio State University, in “The Illusion of Information Adequacy,” published in the Public Library of Science: ONE, the other day.
Information is required, of course, to come to a decision—any decision. But how much information does one need? Apparently, there is a psychological reason why some people aren’t just wrong in an argument— no, they’re confidently
Standing!
The cure for all your health problems stemming from sitting in front of screen all day at the office? Standing desks, they said.
Not any longer.
Yes, folks who sit all day need to move around. But standing desks, apparently, are not the compensation for inactivity. Or so declared researchers from the Universities of Sydney, and Perth, and from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in “Device-Measured Stationary Behaviour and Cardiovascular and Orthostatic Circulatory Disease
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Theology Issues–2
This is Part 2 of an interview with friends from Asian Christian Academy‘s Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, India, a school with which I have had a long and fruitful association. Its president, Dr. Stephen George, and its Director of DMin Studies, Dr. Saji Thomas, were the hosts. (Part 1 can be found here.)
Theology Issues–1
Another interview with friends from Asian Christian Academy‘s Evangelical Theological Seminary, Hosur, India, a school with which I have had a long and fruitful association. Its president, Dr. Stephen George, and its Director of DMin Studies, Dr. Saji Thomas, were the hosts.
Part 1 here (Part 2 to follow next month):
1 Timothy 6:1–2
The service of believing slaves towards their masters, a benefaction bestowed by the former upon the latter, is paradigmatic of selflessness and godliness in the divine household, as believers serve one another with good works, thus enhancing the reputation of God.
In 6:2, it appears that that situation is of believing slaves working for believing masters; therefore, it seems that 6:1 deals with the case of believing slaves working for unbelieving masters. In the latter
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Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.