Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Volume 37”
On a trip through the Canadian Rockies, I was awed by the majestic mountains and captivating scenery. We have a living, powerful, creative God who has made a wonderful world. Beside the Yellowhead Highway, near Banff, is a sign showing the location of the Continental Divide. At this point in the mountains, water flows either to the Atlantic Ocean or …
“What’s going on here? Why is my car behaving this way?” Instantly the traffic ahead veered out of control as the concrete broke up and disappeared. Those few fleeting seconds of disbelief must have been horrifying. Every day approximately 140,000 vehicles drove over the Interstate 35W Bridge between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Construction crews were on the bridge re-decking two …
During 1918-19 more than twenty million people worldwide died in just 120 days as a result of the influenza virus, or what was commonly known as Spanish Flu. Statistics show 12.5 million of these deaths were in India, and half a million in the United States, including more than one half of the population of Alaska. It spread quickly and …
It was an unforgettable sight that burned its image into my brain. The place was in the city of Philadelphia, which means ‘Brotherly Love.’ He was tall, gaunt, unshaven, and his whole body was literally wrapped in rags. That same morning, I had viewed homeless people sleeping on top of sewer gratings, in an effort to keep warm during the …
When I met Randy, he was sitting on a park bench in Great Falls, Montana. He was holding a bottle of beer and looked totally miserable. I listened to his story. When he was quite young, he had lost his sister in a tragic accident. For him, alcohol was the only way he could escape his sorrows. His drinking soon …
Dr. Jack Kevorkian graduated from medical school in 1952 as a pathologist. For decades, he had a keen interest in death, and in the late 1980s he advertised his ‘death counseling’ services in a Detroit newspaper. In 1998 he defiantly administered a lethal injection to an ALS patient who had consented to end his life. Doctor Death, as he had …
