Sharing the Ascension Experience
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: When I first read about KickStart International’s Money Maker Hip Pump. The dance floor chant “Shake your money maker” immediately came to my adolescent mind. Although, once I got beyond the amusing imagery, I soon realized just how important a human powered pump would … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Our mind endowing, Spirit bestowing and personality bequeathing God is always aware of our limitations as well as our potential. We are judged fairly in light of our origin, nature and purpose. And, because mercy is inherent in Divine justice, we can always be … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Andrew Jackson, with his forced march of the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears is no darling of humanitarians. He did, however, get one thing right. Upon closing the Second Bank of the United States, he correctly accused the bankers of having privatized gains while socializing … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: If you could measure the quality as well as the quantity of natural light entering your greenhouse or growing dome, you could supplement with the kind and amount of artificial light needed for optimal plant growth. The colors preferred by plants for rooting, stemming, … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Ask any number of Christians why Jesus came to earth and you are likely to receive an equal number of different answers. While one camp will advance the statement “To die for our sins,” others will quote the Gospel according to John and the … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: When most people think about the Roaring Twenties, the highlights quickly come to mind. Women in the U.S. gained the right to vote in 1920. People of that era also witnessed the advent of broadcasting, a steady climb-out from the post Word War One … Read more
Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Television networks have worked continuously to maximize their return on investment by making spectator sports more exciting. For example, I once heard a proposal about how NASCAR races could be more compelling by putting the beer stand in the middle of the track. “Now … Read more
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