Today's American Minute

Theodore Roosevelt: Fighting New York Crime & Monopolies, defending Blacks & Jews, protesting Massacre of Armenians - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 23, 2024 • defending Blacks & Jews • Fighting Monopolies • freeing Cuba • Kurds & Armenians • Theodore Roosevelt: Police in New York • WWI & protesting Massacre of Syrians

Like the Biden Administration abandoned Afghanistan, Woodrow Wilson's Administration abandoned Armenians. Roosevelt wrote "Armenians, have been subjected to wrongs far greater than any that have been committed since the close of the Napoleonic Wars ... the wars of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane in Asia. Yet this government has not raised its hand to do anything to help the people who were wronged ... This course of national infamy ... began when the last Administration surrendered to the peace at-any-price people."

"Juneteenth": Republicans End Slavery, and a pivotal incident two days after Lincoln's Day of Fasting - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 18, 2024 • "Juneteenth" & What Preceded It: Republican Policies End Slavery • and a Critical Event Two Days After Lincoln's Day of Fasting

To celebrate this victory of Republican abolition policies over the Democrat pro-slavery policies is "Juneteenth," the day Union Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 from his headquarters in Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865, announcing: "The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves."

Happy Father's Day! "America needs heroes on the battlefield of everyday life"-U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 15, 2024 • Father's Day! "America needs heroes on the battlefield of everyday life" -U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall

Genesis 18:19 records one of the reasons God chose Abraham: “For I know him (Abraham), that he will teach his children … (to) keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment.” Deuteronomy 4:9: “Teach them to your children and grandchildren.”

"Reverence for Life" - Albert Schweitzer, Medical Missionary to Gabon, West Africa - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 12, 2024 • Albert Schweitzer "Reverence for Life" - Medical Missionary to Africa - American Minute with Bill Federer

Dr. Albert Schweitzer wrote: "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

C.S. Lewis: "the most dejected & reluctant convert ... kicking, struggling ... darting ... for a chance to escape" - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 10, 2024 • C.S. Lewis - "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--without signposts" - American Minute with Bill Federer

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... His death went unnoticed, as he died the same day John F. Kennedy was shot. His books are some of the most widely read in English literature, with over 200 million sold worldwide. Nearly 50 years after his death, his books continue to sell a million copies a year. His name was Clive Staples Lewis, born November 29, 1898. At age 19, he fought in the trenches in World War One. After the War, C.S. Lewis taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1925-54; and was professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge...