Catching Up on Reading

Traveled yesterday by plane, which gave me a chance to catch up on some reading. Recommended information:

Chuck Colson reminds us that the 200th anniversary of British abolition of slavery is coming in March -- but an estimated 27 million people are still in slavery today.

Dennis Prager writes intelligently about judging religions. "I don't judge religions; I judge practitioners."

Nathan Smith points out that there is a political and operative difference between absolute poverty and relative poverty. Government efforts to help the truly poor and helpless (e.g., wipe out malaria) are altogether different than government program designed to reduce the relative gap between those who have more and those who have less (raise the minimum wage).