Blaze Magazine Special Issue Sneak Peek: How Do We Change Our World?
- Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:21pm by
Chris Field
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Below is the introductory essay from the July/August 2012 cover feature “America in Action: This Is Who We Are.” The feature includes nine inspiring stories and ideas that can, if we emulate them, change our world.
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Many on the Right have been pushing to get the government out of the charity business—but until we step up, the government won’t step back. These powerful stories and ideas should inspire a nation to put our beliefs into practice.
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America: The city on a hill. The last best hope of earth. Exceptional.
We know that’s who we were created to be. What has happened to us? What have we allowed ourselves to become?
City and state governments have decided to take over the role of “brother’s keeper,” going so far as to outlaw the feeding of the homeless by non-approved organizations or individuals. But they’re ineffective and inefficient.
Families in America are broken.
Students across the nation are dealing with violence and immorality in their schools and neighborhoods. They’re looking for mentors and guidance—and they’ll go to whoever shows them some form of leadership and belonging.
Kids with disabilities are cast aside—if they’re even allowed to be born. The elite and their like-minded supporters have decided that people with disabilities can’t contribute and don’t merit their care or attention.
Communities have fallen into chaos and ruin waiting for the government to step in and fix things—from disasters to redevelopment. But a woefully inept bureaucracy has predictably failed.
Civility seems to have been thrown out the window as we see more and more people choosing to rip one another to shreds online.
We all know we’re better than this. So how do we fix it? Where do we start?
We begin by telling our burgeoning government we’re taking back our families and neighborhoods, our schools and children, our duty to care for others. We have to live in the knowledge that we are better when we’re a part of something bigger than ourselves and that we each have an individual responsibility to act, to help, to change our situation. We don’t need our government to tell us how to be good neighbors—every one of us already knows how.
It’s really all about loving each other.
The Scriptures tell us that of faith, hope and love, the greatest of these is love. But being a Bible-believing Christian isn’t necessary for understanding the power of love and the fact that love without action isn’t love.
It’s not enough just so say that we love and want to help others. Instinctively, each of us knows that we don’t have to be told when others love us. When they do love us, we’ll know that they did so. And when they don’t, we’ll recognize that, too.
It’s time we put our belief of love and charity into action. Until we do, the government will continue its claim on our business of caring for others—and rightfully so, because no one will believe our claims of charity until they experience our acts of charity.
To paraphrase St. Francis of Assisi: Teach charity at all times; if necessary, use words.
These stories of inspiration ought to spur us to action and cause us to remember that this is who we are.
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brother_ed
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:16pmI stand with Glenn.
See you at Restoring Love!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 11:45pmI stand with those…. who Argued, Created, and Approved the US Constitution.
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:42pmHow the 2008 run on the banks really happened:
youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=IDdODlFVIfw
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:38pmHow the 2008 run on the banks really happened:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=IDdODlFVIfw
Report Post »highcarry
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:31pmwe have to finally show the traitors in washington (both sides ) that enough is enough. that you can’t get away anymore with making us subject to laws that they are exempted from. that you can’t rule for forty years and we end up in the dumpster. both parties have inflated govt. beyond control because that is what is best for them. they don’t give one hair for the us common citizens. does anybody think that any of them, in either party, cares if this country goes socialist? not as long as they can keep getting rich and secure. but here comes glen. “all we need is more love.” what a line. comeon glen, if govt. gets smaller, so does YOUR paycheck. love ain’t gonna do it folks. what it’s going to take is converging on washington and dragging them out by the scruff of their necks, throwing them in the gutter, and telling them to never set foot in our house again. and i mean ALL of them. from pelosi to paul, from boehner to rangle, ALL of them. and start over with people who know that when they are put in office that if they screw us, they will go to jail. no more lifetime careers. no more getting fat off of us. and no more ducking from the laws that we have to obey. oh heck, why am i going on so? pigs aren’t going to fly.
Report Post »PapaDon2300
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 4:06amAmen Brother nothing more to say than that
Report Post »scrudge
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:53pmAh Yes…. change our world….. “ DUMP OBAMA ”
Report Post »The_Doors_Of_Perception
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:20pmChange the world? Replace superstition and religion with science, reason, and critical thinking.
The Age of Reason
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:30pmAtheist much?
Report Post »The_Doors_Of_Perception
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:39pmanti-thiest
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:52pmYeh… that worked well in Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, & China!
What is your Plan B?
Report Post »OKC08GT500
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:58pmYou are in for a big surprise. Don’t take the Mark.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:15pm@THE_DOORS_OF_PERCEPTION
The prefix ‘a-’ means without. The prefix ‘anti-’ means against.
I respect atheists, but I have no respect for anti-theists.
An atheist may disagree with my beliefs (and at times belittle them), but allows for my opinion. An anti-theist is actively fighting against my right to believe. You, sir, are dangerous.
I am all for the advancement of science and reason, but they need not displace religion.
Report Post »TedNugent3
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:16pmI’m going to sign up right away!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:14pm“Civility seems to have been thrown out the window as we see more and more people choosing to rip one another to shreds online.” And the blaze and the majority of people here who comment are not contributing to this. LOL
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:14pmMe too! Me too! NOT!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:07pmThroughout History… one Nation has pushed against another… one Tribe against another… one Family against another… one Individual against another; We are a Preditor Species… and it is what we do!
Dreamers tend to Masturbate often!
Baddoggy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:29pmI am sure you dream a lot too…
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 5:16pm@BAD…
Protestors (OWS)… Socialists (Utopians)… Unionists (brothers of exclusion)… Radical… Liberals… Progressives… are All DREAMS of a Better World… yet do not contribute nor produce anything Better as a matter of Fact & History. And… you take their Side?
And, if GOD is only a DREAM… you cannot defend your position!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:41pmFirst maybe you need to admit that abortion in the cases of rape and incest is still MURDER Glenn….Oh my….did I step on a toe? I will bet this comment is deleted like the rest…
Report Post »lefty5005
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 4:39pmI’m right of Reagan but I disagree in those cases. I do not believe it is murder and to make a mother carry that child to term and make the decision what to do then is tantamount to being cruel. I don’t think God is cruel.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 9:49pmYou think that child is not God’s? Kill it and its murder…according to God!
Report Post »sizzlinsexybeckster
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:31pmBeautiful, very beautiful. I encourage EVERYONE to please get a subscription for a friend or relative. If you are broke, then pass this info onto your rich relatives. You don’t want history to be erased and out of print. This is the ONLY magazine that will tell the truth and not cover up and ignore it.
TIME Magazine (the one that lies about everything and tells you what to think “we’re all socialists now” along with creepy covers, etc, …. samples of this magazine is being given – (purchased at almost $5 PER STUDENT in the country – with OUR tax dollars) to your elementary school child with indoctrinating crap…. but occasionally includes fuzzy cute animals to make up for it. UGH!!!!
Please get TheBlaze magazine – it’s honest and tells you exactly what is happening without covering anything up or hiding the truth!!! They actually care!!! And that is hard to find in this crazy world!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 3:26pmA lot of us do volunteer our time and energy in helping others. But as long as government keeps taking what we could be using to help more people. Then there is no way that we can outspend them.
Report Post »quarando
Posted on July 2, 2012 at 7:48pmTrue, the government takes money that should be going to help the poor and instead starts a war somewhere so they can dole out trillions of dollars to private contractors, weapons manufacturers and private military groups. These same groups then turn around and use that money to lobby for more war, more drones, more nation building.
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