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Motives for the Holocaust - Vol 1 No 11
"I would never sit by and let murder go on without resisting it!" vehemently protested a young man. "Oh, but you do," Mike said gently. They did not understand that we all are made in the image of God What Made Them Want To Do This? One of the recurring themes for discussion in the class on the Holocaust has been exploring the motivation of the German leadership and the "gemeines volk" or common man. (Yes! Volkswagen was the auto for the "common man!") How did Hitler and h

Joanne Chastain
Feb 116 min read


The Three Minute Gospel - Vol 1 No 10
Last week, we published the ninth entry in our Diary series. Mike had challenged a group of Christians to tell him the Gospel as if he only had three minutes to live. Since then many of you have wanted to know what Mike would say, so we are publishing this special edition of the Diary - How to Tell the True Gospel in Three Minutes! The True Gospel in Three Minutes How can I be saved? I’m glad you understand that you need to be saved from God’s wrath an

Joanne Chastain
Feb 103 min read


Three Minute Gospel - Vol 1 No 9
The bloody soldier grabbed Leroy and pulled him close and pled, 'Leroy, I'm going to die! Tell me how to not go to hell!'" Leroy stared at him in horror.

Joanne Chastain
Feb 93 min read


Pray the Gay Away - Vol 1 No 8
Poster from the Pray the Gay Away Meetings on campus Christians love homosexuals This week Mike went to an after-school lecture in the evening attended by about fifty students. The topic was “Pray the Gay Away” and was given by an intersectionalist feminist professor whose stated purpose was to influence the students to think about Christianity as homophobic which equates to hating homosexuals. During the Q & A, Mike challenged through questions about a half dozen of her p

Joanne Chastain
Feb 86 min read


Postmodern Deconstruction - Vol 1 No 7
'Did a postmodern engineer build it?' Without hesitation the visiting professor exclaimed, "Oh no! It wouldn't have worked!" Postmodern Deconstruction If you looked at the building above and thought, "What in the world?” you are not alone! Mike's first reaction was, "Was this guy on drugs? What a distorted mess!" He was surprise when his professor showed them this as something to be admired and appreciated for it exemplifies the current mindset being encouraged in architect

Joanne Chastain
Feb 73 min read


Fatherhood - Vol 1 No 6
A soon-to-be father asked Mike, "What is the key to being a good daddy?" Charlotte is wrestling a book from the clutches of her father's hands so he will play a game with her at Christmas. She won. Being a good father In God’s Providence the professor was late to class today. The students, which included the gray bearded fellow in khakis and plaid shirt, were chit-chatting and a young man said, “My wife is about to have a baby boy and I am going to be a father for the firs

Joanne Chastain
Feb 66 min read


Christians Caused the Holocaust - Vol 1 No 5
Hitler with the Roman Catholic Pope Christians are the cause of the Holocaust Class began with the professor talking about the causes of the Holocaust and how for millennia, Christians were the major fomenters of antisemitism across the globe. The professor talked about how the German Lutherans and Roman Catholics were Christian and led the way in inciting hatred for the Jews into the 1940's. Going back centuries, he placed particular blame for the Christian culpability at t

Joanne Chastain
Feb 58 min read


The Three Most Heinous Men - Vol 1 No 4
The professor lists Jonathan Edwards as the most heinous example of 'institutional cruelty' in the last 300 years

Joanne Chastain
Feb 47 min read


Human Value - Vol 1 No 3
Students are taught that humans only have value if they are "productive."

Joanne Chastain
Feb 34 min read


What is God? - Vol 1 No 2
...our current culture has severed the moorings that have for so long connected us to solid biblical reason and even common sense

Joanne Chastain
Feb 23 min read


The One That Got it Started - Vol 1 No 1
This is the first Diary Entry that we published. It tells about Mike's motivation to go to College as a Seventy-year-old College Freshman and has some very interesting interactions with students and professors. "...we are all just fizzing chemical reactions..." How it began Week after week, we met together in prayer with the church. We looked around us and saw a devolving culture. We prayed for what we discerned as some of the root causes and asked God what we could do abou

Joanne Chastain
Feb 15 min read
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