Oct 22, 2019 | Engaging Education, Susan Gleason
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – November 9, 1989 (Pt. 3) On another visit to Berlin, I stood at the Berlin Wall, along with others, chiseling away and collecting souvenirs of what amounted to chunks of mortar with gravel and splashes of paint. Did...
Sep 28, 2019 | Engaging Education, Susan Gleason
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Pt. 2 – November 9, 1989 Even though the Berlin Wall was open, the situation in East Berlin was still extremely tense. Shortly after the Berlin Wall was opened, I visited friends in East Berlin for an extended weekend,...
Sep 10, 2019 | Engaging Education, Susan Gleason
30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – November 9, 1989 I was working as an interpreter and translator in Cologne, West Germany, when the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago. On November 9, 1989, I was waiting at a stoplight, two blocks from my apartment. ...
Jul 17, 2019 | Ann LeBlanc, Christian Worldview
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Was God Present in the Forming of Our Nation? Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Declaration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by...
Sep 13, 2018 | Rigorous Courses, Walt Jurek
In 1966, the atheist astrophysicist, Carl Sagan, who is widely known for his highly publicized explanation of the “pale blue dot” photo captured by Voyager 1 while looking back at Earth, reported that there were two requirements for a planet to be able to sustain...
