North America

"He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great..." (Genesis 48:19).

North America's history is tied to Great Britain's by more than just a revolution. The story begins with a promise to a patriarch, passed down to two brothers—the ancestors of two of the world's greatest superpower nations. Find out more below.

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America's Economic Meltdown: What Does It Mean?

Unemployment, debt and trade imbalances are soaring while the dollar's value is plummeting. What's behind the shocking economic meltdown in the United States? Does Bible prophecy help us understand?
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World News and Trends: Recession deeply disrupting American life

As discouraging as this latest recession has been to many, we have not seen the end of it, as indicated by various sectors of society and our economy. And it's having some repercussions not immediately evident.
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World News and Trends- America's "New Era of Engagement": Where will it lead?

A feature article in USA Today stated: "With President Obama presiding over an historic session, the UN Security Council unanimously approved a U.S. sponsored resolution ... committing all nations to work for a nuclear weapons-free world. Russia, China and developing...
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World News and Trends: Will a reversal in American diplomacy work in our hostile world?

Current President Barack Obama's own style brings out the sharp contrast of his administration's fundamental approach to international diplomacy.
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Thanksgiving, Pilgrims and Freedom

It is difficult today for us to imagine moving to another land, away from all that is familiar, to seek religious freedom. But that is what they did.
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Discerning This Time

Events this month remind us of Christ's warning to "discern this time" (Luke 12:56). Our world is rapidly changing, and there is no guarantee things will continue as they are at present.
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World News and Trends: Major American policy shifts pressure Israel

Ethan Bronner, reporting in Jerusalem for the International Herald Tribune, raises an important question in regard to U.S.-Israeli relations: "Iran seems to be hurtling toward nuclear weapons capacity, Hezbollah could win Sunday's election in Lebanon [thankfully, it did not] and...
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World News and Trends: U.S. infrastructure vulnerable to cyberattack

The U.S. electrical grid has been penetrated by foreign agents who inserted software that could attack the computer-controlled system, according to national security officials ("Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies," The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2009).
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World News and Trends: Is Mexico the next threat to U.S. stability?

Mexico's rise in crime, violence, drugs and kindnappings indicate it's headed towards an inevitable downfall. What will this mean for the United States?
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Lincoln: President and Prophet?

An editorial note from Scott Ashley
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Mr. Brown Comes to Washington

It was evident from the setting that the new American president will take a different approach to the "special relationship" between America and Britain.
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Wall Street's Year of Release?

Is it possible we will one day see a return to godly financial principles in the world's financial capitals?
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World News and Trends: America and amorality

Far too many Americans have chosen a path of make-it-up-as-you-go morality or even amorality. Amorality admits no moral distinctions or judgments and lacks moral sensibility, not caring about right and wrong.
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World News and Trends- India and China: the diplomatic conflict

What may help America in countering Chinese ambitions, at least temporarily, is the current diplomatic conflict between China and India.
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World News and Trends: China's growing naval ambitions

While it is currently far from matching or surpassing U.S. naval power, China has a much longer history and the historic patience to pursue a long-term strategy with the view to eventually surpassing American dominance of the sea. (Sources: Stratfor...
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World News and Trends: Massive domestic and international challenges confront the next president

Richard Holbrooke, a former U.S. ambassador to the UN, observed that "the Presidency of the United States is the most extraordinary job ever devised"—with the one assuming this position "tested by pressures unimaginable to anyone who has not held the...
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The Wealth of a Nation

America's military, economic and political power is a wonder of the modern world. Like that punching bag toy I used to play with, America keeps bouncing back.
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The Bible and Joe the Plumber

Are you "Joe the Plumber"?
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Of Rice, Men and God

Have you noticed that you now pay more for your food? The reasons are many. Part of the cause is the subprime mortgage crisis, strange as that might seem!
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Food Shortages Coming

Food shortages can lead to civil unrest and the untimely deaths of the innocent.
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