1. What are non-Christians’ view of God? Barna reports, “While a significant 30 percent of non-Christians who are not spiritually open is simply unsure what they believe about God, about half (47%) firmly do not believe there is a God or higher power.”

2. How the customer review changed the world: Samuel James nails the impact of democratization on the contemporary world, “The word for this is democratization. Democratization is literally the process of democracy, or the process by which democracy emerges. When we say that the web has democratized information and experiences, we mean that it has made things that otherwise would be available to the few available to the many. It should be obvious from this that the internet is one of the greatest democratizing forces in world history, and quite possibly the single greatest.”

3. 10 things you should know about American criminal justice: Matthew Martens shares, “The United States has a rate of violent crime markedly higher than that of most Western European nations, yet only a fraction of those crimes is ever solved and the perpetrators held accountable. One recent study estimated that about 10 percent of serious crime—meaning murder, rape, aggravated assault, theft, burglary, robbery—result in arrests.”

4. You will never regret the sins you do not commit: Tim Challies empathizes, “Like you, I know that dreadful sick-to-my-stomach feeling that follows a sin, and especially one of those sins I am particularly committed to battling and overcoming. Though I had promised myself that I would never again commit that sin, though I had prayed for the Lord’s help, and though I had addressed the pattern of temptation and attempted to nip it in the bud, still I had caved and blundered into it once again.”

5. Mangrove photography awards 2023: What a world God has created!

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