With a bus trip scheduled to head to Healesville Sanctuary, we planned on having breakfast at the Treasury on Collins with Fr. Larry. He recommended heading up to the animal sanctuary, so he had some last minute recommendations. We also discussed Mugabe stepping down as that was all the local news was talking about. …
Month: January 2018
In the past couple of weeks, I heard similar questions on podcasts I love. On Wait, What, a comic book podcast, Graeme McMillian asked and answered a question about why he reads comics. On The Gist, Mike Pesca detailed why he loved politics. Both of these questions got my thinking about my own feelings on both issues. …
Abraham Lincoln had been elected President in 1860 and many Southern Senators began leaving. Instead of attending Senate sessions, they went to secession committees. Sen. John Crittenden of Kentucky and his allies wanted to try to save the union through another compromise. As we all know, it failed and the Civil War began months later. …
89 years ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was born. Today, headlines across the country detail that the President of the United States does not consider himself a racist. And he is a racist. Injustice Anywhere Is a Threat to Justice Everywhere In King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail, he wrote the heading above to …