Monday, June 23, 2014

The Lost Diary of Dr Livingstone. (Secrets of the Dead)




(Since PBS doesn't like putting their content on YouTube.com for free, here is a link to the video on the PBS website.)

One of the most popular sermons of the late D. James Kennedy, one of the bright and shining stars of the Evangelical World, was one entitled "The Secret of Commitment." This piece chronicled the testimony of David Livingstone, and used him as an example of unwavering commitment to the missionary cause. It is not necessary to observe that the accounts given by this PBS documentary and Dr. Kennedy are at variance.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

An Open Letter to Ralph Nader on Climate Change.

Dear Mr. Nader:

I recently listened to the March 12, 2014 interview that you gave with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, and I am very concerned with the way you plan to ween the United States off fossil fuels. Although I agree that the earth has reached a crisis point because of human pollution and drastic steps must be taken to save our planet and the human race, cutting American access to carbon based and nuclear energy, without transforming American life to be less dependent on energy, will have devastating repercussions which will undoubtedly plague this continent for centuries to come.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Not One More: Some Facts and Figures about Gun Violence

By Brandon Luper

All the reader will get by reading this short article are some facts and figures about gun violence in the United States. My hope is that, having crammed all these calculations and statistics into her brain, the reader’s picture of what America’s gun culture is really like will go from snowy screen analog to crisp, digital high definition.

 If the reader is up for such a journey, let’s get started. During the 2013-2014 school year, there were 47 school shootings in the United States.  That’s one every four school days. 31 people have been killed in these shootings, many more injured. And, despite Eliot Rodgers’ misogynistic rampage at University of California Santa Barbara on May 23, it should be noted that this is a down year.