Strength in Seismic Times
Acts 4:23-31
James C. Denison
These were the headlines one day last week:
Pakistan quake kills 170, leaves thousands homeless
Paterson calls for federal rescue package for states
Fighting in Congo approaches Goma
Suicide attacks kill dozens in Somalia
China investigates tainted eggs in new food scare
Boy is 23rd child abandoned at Nebraska hospital
Market motion sickness to continue
Panel rebukes FDA on plastic bottle safety
It makes you want to throw away the paper before you read it and refuse to open the Internet, doesn’t it? Sixteen years ago, historian Francis Fukuyama spoke of the times as “the end of history.” He meant that history defined as the clash between nations and cultures was at its end. The demise of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War and would bring democracy to Russia and Eastern Europe. The technological revolution would create a new global economy, one in which progress was inevitable. “The world is flat,” Thomas Friedman wrote—the Internet would make the world smaller and the nations more cooperative and synergistic than ever before.