Today's American Minute

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...

D-Day, June 6, 1944 & Nazi aggression that led up to it; FDR "A Struggle to Preserve our Republic, our Religion & our Civilization" - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 05, 2024 • 1944? FDR "A Struggle to Preserve our Republic • June 6 • our Religion & our Civilization" • What led up to D-Day

President Franklin Roosevelt stated JUNE 6, 1944: "My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation ... I ask you to join with me in prayer: Almighty God, Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization ...

Colonial Pastors Who Influenced American Government - John Wise, Thomas Hooker, John Witherspoon: "A Republic must either preserve its Virtue or lose its Liberty" - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 04, 2024 • Colonial Clergymen John Wise • Thomas Hooker & John Witherspoon • who signed Declaration of Independence: "A Republic must either preserve its Virtue or lose its Liberty"

Calvin Coolidge stated: "In its main feature the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document ... Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch ... They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions ... Unless the faith of the American in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause ... If anyone wishes to deny their truth ... the only direction in which he can proceed ... is ... backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people ..

Korean War "Freedom is Not Free": Democracy & Individual Capitalism versus Socialism & Global Capitalism - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 03, 2024 • Korean War "Freedom is Not Free": Socialism & Global Capitalists vs. Democracy & Individual Capitalism

With temperatures sometimes forty degrees below zero in the Korean mountains, and Washington politicians limiting the use of air power against the Communists, there were nearly 140,000 American casualties:

Memorial Day --Honoring American Heroes of Courage, Sacrifice, & Faith - American Minute with Bill Federer

May 26, 2024 • & Faith • Memorial Day --Honoring American Heroes of Courage • Sacrifice

Inscribed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is the phrase: "HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD." Since 1921, it has been the tradition for Presidents to lay a wreath on the Tomb, which is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.