I recently went to a talk at Franciscan University by a priest who had done missions work in Siberia for 20 years. He said sound spirituality is putting the other person’s needs before your own. That would seem to fly … Continue reading
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Post election I have continued on with my ‘populist pursuits.’ Besides house painting, I continue to write freelance articles for our local newspaper. One article that I wrote in the last week was about an extra-ordinary senior at Bluffton University. … Continue reading
I attended a talk at Bluffton University today that was, in part, about Russian dissidents. BU History Professor Perry Bush noted that scores of Soviet Union “dissidents” (artists, writers, teachers, Christians…) were killed under Stalin — or sent to “labor … Continue reading
On Tuesday, I attended a forum on “Climate Change” at nearby Bluffton University. [Having a small liberal arts college in our backyard has provided an absolute wealth of research information.] Toledo University Environmental Science Professor Andrew Jorgensen travels the country … Continue reading
We talked to a woman recently who said she and her husband adopted a baby with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It’s their only child, and she said the girl has been a tremendous blessing. She added that people will sometimes abort when there is … Continue reading
According to Gwynne Dyer, author of the book Climate Wars, for each year we don’t “come up with an adequate climate deal (Copenhagen Accords was a bust),” it is probably costing somewhere on the order of 50 million premature deaths … Continue reading
I talked with Alan Jenkins who is involved with the Earth Covenant Ministry through his Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. (Earth Covenant focuses on trying to promote more environmental stewardship in the face of some tremendously bad environmental practices these … Continue reading
Rte 90 Run-N-Gun Tour cont.: We stopped at the National Park Service’s Minuteman Missile Headquarters just outside Cactus Flat, South Dakota. Among the displays here, was the simulated flight course of a Minuteman nuclear missile from southern South … Continue reading
Coming out of Amarillo, we stopped in Prayer Town, Texas (yes, there is a place named that), where I gave an impromptu talk to a group of Catholic Nuns there. One of their Sisters had just gone to China … Continue reading
While in Abilene, I was interviewed by Bob Bartlett at NBC News here. Then we traveled to Sweetwater, Texas, where I passed out fliers downtown and was interviewed by the Sweetwater Reporter newspaper. The previous Sunday, the … Continue reading