My talk begins 35 mins in and ends with me leading the 3,500 assembled in singing “Amazing Grace”. No kidding.
Guess who snapped this photo below? None other than VP Joseph P. Biden, who of his own accord very graciously offered to take it for me! Amazing. I wonder how many photos there are of U.S. President’s taken by U. S. Vice Presidents?
To read Ross Douthat’s latest NY Times column, click here. It’s a wonderful column, and it’s extraordinary to think that their deaths were separated by a mere thirteen days. For more on the “pro-life Kennedy”click here.
This week my friend Terry Mattingly’s column is about Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who started the Special Olympics and died recently, at eighty-eight. Amazing. And click here to see more at Terry’s super-fab blog, www.GetReligion.org.
Right here in Manhattan, my wife, Susanne, runs the MPSC (Midtown Pregnancy Support Center) a non-political, non-profit Christian organization that offers help of all kinds to women (and families) that find themselves in “crisis pregnancies.” The stories one hears from such women can be incredibly moving; but what’s most striking to me is that one never seems to hear these stories — of real women, making real decisions in difficult circumstances — anywhere in the popular culture, neither on tv nor in the so-called main-stream media. Here’s one such story from the online site for First Things.
To read Ross Douthat’s latest NY Times column,
Right here in Manhattan, my wife, Susanne, runs the