Reading: I Am America, Frank Hall I am America — Take me away and you’ve removed a dream You’ve taken hope away — A vision and a promise. I am not the country. The country is carefully curled up in me. I am America, the dream that gave birth to a nation, To become a […]
Chautauqua Lectures – Lecture 2 – Tuesday, July 5, 2005-The Anatomy of a Religious Liberal
I’m a religious liberal. That’s not a confession. It’s not an apology. They’ve tried to turn the word liberal inside out, to equate it with moral depravity—you know who they are. They are the mind managers; the language manipulators. Let’s do a little dissection—let’s look at the parts and see what makes us tick–those of […]
Chautauqua Lectures – Lecture 3 – Wednesday, July 6, 2005 – “The Evolution of God”
The attack on America came as a complete surprise-though in retrospect we might have expected it. The planes, flown by pilots prepared to commit suicide by flying their planes into their unsuspecting targets, came in two horrendously destructive waves hitting the first target at 7:53 a.m. and the second at 8:55. By 10 a.m. it […]
Chautauqua Lectures – Lecture 4 -Thursday, July 7, 2005 – “Struggle of the Two Natures in Man”
Opening Reading: e e cummings rain or hail sam done the best he kin till they digged his hole sam was a man stout as a bridge rugged as a bear slickern a weasel how be you (sun or snow) gone into what like all them kings you read about and on him sings a […]
Chautauqua Lectures – Lecture 5 – Friday, July 8, 2005 – The Hero in American Culture: The Legacy of Christopher Reeve
Opening Words: “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. If we can conquer outer space we can conquer inner space, too.” These sentiments from Christopher Reeve explain the title of his second book, Nothing is Impossible. But more […]