Today's American Minute

"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...

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:

Clara Barton & the American Red Cross - American Minute with Bill Federer

May 24, 2024 • Clara Barton & American Red Cross

"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. I am well and strong and young -- young enough to go to the front. If I cannot be a soldier, I'll help soldiers."

Roman Empire Persecutions - American Minute with Bill Federer

May 14, 2024 • Roman Persecution of Christians

William Jennings Bryan, New York Times, September 7, 1913: "I can imagine that the early Christians who were carried into the Coliseum to make a spectacle for those more savage than the beasts ... And yet within a few decades the power which they invoked proved mightier than the legions of the Emperor, and the faith in which they died was triumphant o'er all the land ..."