Episodes
Monday Jan 10, 2022
interview--publisher Tony Lyons on Big Tech censorship
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
When you write a book that is politically correct, it shows up on every platform and is praised to the skies. But when you write one that goes again the "popular narrative", such as Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s "The Real Anthony Fauci" from Skyhorse Publishing...well, even a liberal Democrat with legitimate research gets the cold shoulder from social media. what happened to freedom of the press?
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Dr. Phil Goodrich, physician and amateur historian, did a pile of research and unearthed the secret group headed by Dr. Ben Franklin who planned revolution in order to free Pennsylvania from its owner. The end result was independence for the colonies that became the United States, but it was never simple or easy. It took a dedicated banker-financier, writer, Quaker politicians, and a smart and brave enslaved man who was freed by the British courts.
Monday Jan 10, 2022
classic interview--Christian Guide to understanding homosexuality
Monday Jan 10, 2022
Monday Jan 10, 2022
This is a sensitive and insightful book from 2011, written by Joe Dallas, who left the gay lifestyle, and Nancy Heche, whose husband died of AIDS and whose daughter (actress Anne) was involved in a high-profile lesbian relationship until she also left the lifestyle. The book looks at emotional issues, societal pressures on young men and women, and loving your children even in the midst of behavior shocking or saddening.
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
classic interview-Walt Wangerin Jr
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
One of the forgotten casualties of a year that was consumed by talk of COVID was the incredible storyteller, author and pastor Walt Wangerin Jr, who died August 5, 2021 at age 77. He had been fighting cancer 15 years, and addressed part of his spiritual and physical battle in his 2010 book, "Letters from the Land of Cancer". It's a powerful story of grace, courage and deep faith.
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
review--Richard Simmons III on the Big Question
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
“Reflections on the Existence of God: a series of essays” by Richard E. Simmons III (Union Hill Publishing)
The most important question of life is simple but critical: “does God exist?” Either He does and he does not. There is no third option. You are betting your eternal destiny on your answer, as well as informing your entire earthly life. The options are mutually exclusive: if one is right, the other is wrong. “Atheism and theism are alternative belief systems that offer radically different views.”
This book is a series of essays exploring that question. Its research is drawn from the great atheist thinkers over the ages, including philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Bertrand Russell; scientists like Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett. The author also looked at the work of theistic thinkers from the Judeo-Christian worldview, which provided the foundation for the rise of Western civilization.
Here are the two worldviews: either we live in a random, pointless existence in a universe that evolved just as life did, for no particular reason, with no god and no direction; OR there is a supernatural intelligence who gives the universe order and life meaning, whose history is rooted in Biblical revelation.
We either have no accountability for anything we do, think or plan; or we are accountable to a being that created us, rescued us from our grubby little lives of greed, lust and hate, and sustains us by His spirit. Further, you need to know not only what you believe but WHY. Don’t hold a worldview because you are too lazy intellectually to look at any evidence. (For example, most people who reject Christianity know almost nothing about it except what they have seen in the media or had a brief encounter with it.)
Simmons’ book investigates the journeys of great thinkers from one worldview to the other and why they changed their minds. “Follow the truth wherever it leads, always remembering that the truth is your friend. It enables you to believe responsibly.” For example, what of the problem of evil?
“You have to explain where the goodness scale comes from that enable us to identify evil. So how does a person with an atheistic worldview deal with the problem of evil and wickedness? He does not have a good basis to be outraged over the evil seen in the world, because atheist evolution teaches the clear lesson that natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak.” However, “the notion of evil implies that there is a standard of goodness that has been violated. Apart from a transcendent lawgiver, there is no basis for moral law other than the law of the jungle. Human rights are not self-evident to everybody. Human rights are not things we can prove. It take religious commitment. It’s a faith assumption.” Without God, human beings are merely another animal.
So what do YOU think?