None Dare Call It Murder By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Leroy Jackson had been missing for eight days back in September, 1993, when an anonymous tip was phoned in to the New Mexico State Police that a white van was parked along the Brazos Cliffs, near the town of Chama. When officers arrived they found
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Torquemada And The Spanish Inquisition By Dr. Lorin Swinehart On the morning of February 6, 1481, six prominent citizens of the Spanish city of Sevilla, Jewish converts to Christianity, were marched through town barefoot, each carrying an unlighted candle. After attending Mass and a sermon, they were burned at the stake. A few days
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THE BEAR WHO CAME TO LUNCH —and other adventures from my life as a Park Ranger By Lorin Swinehart “Bear!” my wife LaVon shouted as we sat down to lunch. There, standing erect and peering through the window at us was a huge black bear. I grabbed the camera and ran outside to steal
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Farewell To A Friend By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Our daughter Hope’s aging mixed breed Labrador retriever recently passed away. My wife and I always referred to Kodi Lynn Dog as our grand-dog. Kodi and I enjoyed many walks near our daughter’s home in North Carolina. Kodi’s passing leaves a vacancy in all our hearts.
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FARENHEIT 451: Harbinger of the Future By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Among the intelligentsia of the late Nineteenth Century were those who believed that science and technology would create utopia, heaven on earth, in the future. The devastation caused by tanks, poison gas, and the development of more efficient automatic weapons and artillery pieces during
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THE BRAVEST OF MEN—The Lives of the Apostles After Calvary By Dr. Lorin Swinehart The reign of the Emperor Nero was a dark time for many in ancient Rome. After a great fire destroyed much of the city in 64 AD, Nero looked about for a scapegoat. He settled upon resident Jews, Christians and
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The Two Sides Of Robert F. Kennedy By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Good Bobby vs. Bad Bobby President Barack Obama recently appeared in Alaska alongside survival expert Bear Grylls for an episode of the NBC seriesRunning Wild. The two dined on raw salmon, a bear’s leftovers. It is difficult to imagine any occupant of the
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Grand Canyon Rhapsody/Grand Canyon Requiem By Dr. Lorin Swinehart “Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the unlovely human mind.” Aldo Leopold President Theodore Roosevelt said of Grand Canyon, “Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at
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SHEPHERDS & WISE MEN —Ancient Truths and Puzzles Underlie Popular Perceptions of the Christmas Story By Dr. Lorin Swinehart For Christians, Christmas is about the birth of the Christ Child, the descent of the Divine into the field of time. Only two of the four Gospel authors, Luke, a physician and companion to Paul, and
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THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS—And the Death of Childhood By Dr. Lorin Swinehart In Irving, Texas recently, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohammed brought a homemade clock to school to show his science teacher. Paranoid school officials somehow hit the panic button, concluding that the clock was a bomb. Police were called, and young Ahmed was handcuffed,
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