The Lenten season, Holy Week, and Easter make up the most important time of the year for Christians. Whether your church celebrates Lent or just Easter, there are many ways in which you can recognize and celebrate this time of year and teach your children why it is so important. This is a great opportunity to teach them that Easter is more than eggs and baskets full of candy. Lent and Easter Start with the basics and teach your children exactly what this time of year celebrates and why. Lent is traditionally a part of
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As a writer and producer on the newly released documentary, A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995, this is my second article in a series I am writing interpreting the various strands of evidence that are anomalous to the official story of the OKC bombing.  A Noble Lie was the cumulative effort of the film crew building on years of independent research and investigation by journalists, police officers, public office holders, and others who became convinced that the government was involved in a massive cover up regarding the true perpetrators. For the purposes of the film,
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Popular literature frequently skirts the boundaries between truth and fiction. Many classic literary works have actually been thinly veiled allegories of contemporary or historical events, and many of the world’s most famous writers of fiction such as George Orwell, Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, and Aldous Huxley are perhaps remembered even more for the depth and quality of their social and political commentary than they are for the overall quality of their writing. It will certainly be no surprise to anyone to hear that famous classic books such as 1984, The Jungle, or Brave New World
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In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a coalition of Muslim states in northern Africa (Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, and Tripoli) carried out a sustained military campaign directed against the Christian nations of western Europe, specifically England, Spain, France, and Denmark. Essentially, this conflict was a continuation of a struggle that had originated in the days of the Crusades, and the Barbary Powers, as the Muslim nations were called, were determined to avenge past outrages against their faith. Unfortunately, American merchant vessels sailing the Atlantic were frequently caught in the crossfire of this conflict. Seeing
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We often think of self-sufficiency in terms of learning to provide our own necessities–food, clothing, shelter, medical care etc.  Learning to amuse ourselves rather than passively consuming entertainment has less obvious survival implications than learning to feed and clothe ourselves; however, I am convinced that it does increase personal self-reliance and family and community strength
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President’s Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February, but in the true tradition of democracy, Americans haven’t always agreed exactly who to honor on the date. The current federal holiday is designated to honor all American presidents; however, for a majority of Americans, the emphasis of this holiday is decidedly on George Washington
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A number of conservative scholars and legislators think it’s time for the American people to get serious about the Constitution. Dr. Richard Brake of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute has been conducting a civic literacy program for several years. That national initiative is designed to assess the level of civic learning on today’s college campuses. His findings raise serious red flags. The ISI gave a basic multiple-choice civics test to 14,000 freshmen and 14,000 seniors from over 80 schools. Combined with that test and testing of the nation’s adult population, Brake says there is serious epidemic
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There are a few things in life that offer incredible versatility and don’t cost very much. Two of the best examples of such products in off-the-grid living are Ranger bands and duct tape. Ranger Bands Leave it to one of the elite military forces of the world to develop such a simple and effective tool to accomplish a job that just wasn’t getting done with the available items. It was originally designed as a subsidy to the Army Ranger’s gear to keep loose and rattling items quiet, specifically things like loaded M-16/M4 magazines. Perhaps they
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A Noble Lie: a myth or untruth told by the elite in order to preserve social harmony, and to preserve the position of the elite.   –From Plato’s The Republic A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995 was released in December of 2011.  It is the first feature-length documentary to examine the OKC bombing in the light
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I have friends, both conservative and liberal, who are focused on disasters which may await us: terrorism, government oppression,  global financial collapse and anarchy, peak oil, pandemics, catastrophic climate change… the list is endless. Some of these fears strike me as more realistic than others, but I don’t know what the future holds and neither do they. We have to live as best we can in the face of this uncertainty.  This is harder to do because we’re constantly bombarded by advertisements and news coverage encouraging us to be afraid, to feel helpless, and to
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