The Old Bachelor, the Old Maid and the Bull By Dr. Lorin Swinehart I was 15 years old when one warm October evening, the bull killed the Old Bachelor. Life and death were everyday realities for those of us who grew up in the rural Midwest. Farm boys all knew where calves, and foals,
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ISIDRO BALDENEGRO LOPEZ —Murder of a Mexican Activist Has Global Ramifications By Dr. Lorin Swinehart The roster of those who pay with their lives because of their efforts to defend natural habitats from the powerful, the rapacious and the greedy, continues to grow. Some of their names are well known—Dian Fossey, Chico Mendes—others
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CIVIL WAR HERO—First Medal of Honor Recipient By Dr. Lorin Swinehart At first glance, Jacob Parrot would not have impressed many people as a national hero. He appears in photos as a pale, thin young man sporting a dark mustache and with something of a haunted look in his eyes. A farm boy from
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Editor’s Page Guest Editorial by Dr. Lorin Swinehart Ayn Rand’s Death Grip On U.S. Politics On December 17, 1927, twelve- year-old Marion Parker was abducted from her Los Angeles school by career criminal William Edward Hickman, who had previously committed at least one murder and a string of armed robberies. Because she recognized him
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Passover And The Plagues On Egypt By Dr. Lorin Swinehart The writers of the Gospels tell us that on his last night before being subjected to torture and execution, Jesus and his Apostles met to share their last meal, known to Christians as the Last Supper, to celebrate the Feast of the Passover.
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Silence, Solitude, Simplicity By Dr. Lorin Swinehart It was one of those wild winter days that remind one of the children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh and the Blustery Day. The temperature had dropped precipitously, and a strong, gusty wind had roared down out of the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains, drenching the area in a cold
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President Jimmy Carter: A Portrait in Greatness By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Speaking of the extinction of species in an anthropocene world, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson recently observed, “For the first time in history a conviction has developed among those who can actually think more than a decade ahead that we are playing a global
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Who Is This Jesus? By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Each year at this time, we celebrate his birth, but it seems that his message has been lost amidst all the frenzied commercialism. We know the basics: that he was born, was baptized by John the Baptist, that his ministry probably lasted about three and a
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The Perilous Lives Of Sea Turtles By Dr. Lorin Swinehart On May 30, 2013, Costa Rican activist Jairo Mora set out with four volunteers to patrol an especially dangerous stretch of beach, intending to protect leatherback turtle eggs from poachers. Mora had been harassed and attacked before because of his activities. People like
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The Coyote Bides His Time A Native American Trickster and a Born Survivor By Dr. Lorin Swinehart An excited yipping and yapping, like a pack of fox terriers fighting over a carcass, echoed across the meadow as I rested beneath a towering evergreen, savoring my morning mug of lapsangsouchong tea. Moments later, four large
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