“You’re blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.” – Matthew 5:9 One has merely to tune into local media outlets to be greeted by negative international, regional or national news. There are political and …

  “And my God will fully satisfy every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 4:19 This weekly column is published in a series entitled “Serious Business”. However, one verbal comment recently at a casual meeting of a friend was “keep sending me those inspirational columns; I do …

  “Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate”. – Mark 10:9 The opening paragraph of a February 2007 article by Sharon White entitled: “The Shrinking Global Village” reads as follows: “In the early 1960s, Canadian theorist Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “global village” to describe how television brought information, entertainment and culture …

“It is you who light my lamp; the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.” – Psalm 18:28 The first and last paragraphs from the Abstract of a 2013 Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) study follow: “This survey posits that improving global prospects especially in the United States and Europe will …