Bob Kalk Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: To the earliest hunters and gatherers, the struggle for survival was often a lonely experience. The mind was occupied with fetishes, charms, and magic in an effort to better the odds in the attempt to insure good luck over bad luck. The agrarian societies … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: In the first week of this year, we saw just how fragile even a mature, constitutionally grounded democratic republic can be. As we reached out to family, friends, and colleagues, we got the sense that we, as individuals, are just as siloed as our … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: The romantic era poet George Byron wrote “The dust we tread upon was once alive.” Such contemplative reflection, over the interaction humans have with the environment, continues today in the evolving intellectual disciplines of science, philosophy, and religion. Those that would have us believe … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word choreographed an assembly of amino acids into an exquisite array of specific proteins. Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: A deeply resonant CSN song began with the lyric “You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by.” While this is likely true, one would hope the rest of us don’t need an Ovaltine Decoder Ring to figure … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Sometimes we are truly thankful for each day we manage to stay on top of the ground. If we lived a few thousand years ago, in or near the desert, we might prefer to get out of the hot sun by working underground. Digging … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: In his Parable of the Sower Jesus said: “Other seed fell among the thorns, and as the thorns grew up it was choked so that it yielded no grain.” In another related teaching the Master said: “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: On January 6th in the year 2021, hoards of emotionally charged, intellectually stunted insurgents breached security and stormed into the United States Capitol building. Elected representatives were evacuated. The traitorous, treasonous, seditionist, insurrectionist authoritarian enablers among them tried to distance themselves from the violence they … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: I recall reading a certain Superman comic-book story in my youth. Our hero was having more than a few bad days. On one of them, he had built and gifted a high-tech solar array to Metropolis. It was reflecting sunlight into, what would otherwise … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: There is abundant evidence that human beings were working stone over two and a half million years ago. Early humans were making Acheulean axes and other large cutting tools over one and a half million years ago. Two hundred thousand years ago middle stone … Read more
