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Winds of Change The winds of COVID19 have certainly brought great change to Mike's college experience as a freshman. He initially thought his purpose for God was to interact with students directly, being a voice in the wilderness, bringing a Biblical worldview to their otherwise bereft assessments of life and learning, but God had other plans. With all classes now online as we shelter-in-place, most interactions are with the professor. In the analogy of the old Chinese prov

"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

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.

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

The professor lists Jonathan Edwards as the most heinous example of 'institutional cruelty' in the last 300 years