Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, murdered in March, 1980 for speaking out for the poor and against the injustice of the Salvadoran Government. A true martyr. Will be interesting to find out the miracle attributed to him. The picture is of him in 1941, at the age of 24.
I already posted here about Tim’s school winning their Conference Championship. The two throwers on the men’s team are Tim – who is good – but Rickssen is REALLY good. Like ranked #7 in the state among college shot throwers. Here are a couple pictures and then videos of both Tim and Rickssen. A couple … Read more
Interesting that Trump was with his father at a Billy Graham Yankee Stadium rally way back in 1957.
This is a wonderful column. I've excerpted most of it below the link. He had an ability to reach across denominational lines and ‘speak to the common believing heart.’ You know the miraculous life of Louis Zamperini, whose story was told in Laura Hillenbrand’s epic, lovely book, “Unbroken.” Louis was the delinquent, knockabout son of … Read more
The man's body is still warm but the NYT has to give an opinion on his failings. The author is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkley. No doubt this column has been ready to go for a while. Says more about the NY Times than about Billy Graham. Billy Graham’s Missed Opportunities … Read more
League President Bill Donohue comments – REV. BILLY GRAHAM, R.I.P. Bill Donohue comments on the death of Rev. Billy Graham: Growing up Catholic in New York in the 1950s, the Catholic we most identified with was Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the first televangelist. The Protestant we most clearly revered was Rev. Billy Graham. In both … Read more
The greatest day of her my life. No pictures from that day – we met at a party I was having at my flat in Mandeville, Jamaica. I had seen her a couple of times around town. Here’s Brigid about a year later, and several months before we got married, at a place called “Lover’s … Read more
Full Disclosure: I am a man. Article is by a French woman radio host who conducted the survey.. Leaving aside other issues for the moment, I've always wondered why taking a hormone, that effects (as all hormones really do) your whole body, is considered a good idea. so maybe it's not a good idea? Increasingly … Read more
Here’s a pretty good great success story. (In 2006 I had a stem cell transplant [giving me back my own harvested stem cells] to rebuild my immune system after the high dose chemotherapy I received for my mantle cell lymphoma. It’s 2018 and I’m still here – so far, so good.But this is a different … Read more
From NY Times health section – I believe it – excerpts below the link but worth reading the whole article. They wound up with 49 high-quality past experiments that had studied a total of 1,863 people, including men and women, young and old, and experienced weight trainers as well as novices. The sources of the … Read more