The Top 5 Plus (June 20)

1) “The US has emboldened Iran and abandoned Israel: Trump’s war with the Islamic Republic was doomed from the beginning.” (Phil Mullan, spiked!) From the article – From the start of the war to last weekend’s ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Iran, the White House has acted like a child who spies a hornets’ nest, pokes it with…

Oh, My! A “When Swing Was King” Update

My, oh my; has it really been 16 years since we presented our first “When Swing Was King” program in a senior care facility?  Goodness. That first show was presented at Life Care Center where my Mom was then living. And it was intended to be an entertainment feature at a party we were throwing…

Denny Remembers Quint Coppi

The history of Vital Signs Ministries has been a long, challenging, and eventful one yet, by the grace of Almighty God, we have experienced remarkable victories and blessings along the way. And in almost all of the adventurous years of VSM’s Christ-centered pro-life ministry, Quint and Carol Coppi performed the most steadfast, winsome, and absolutely…

The Top 5 Plus (June 13)

1) “In the Time of Covid” (Matthew Hennessey, WSJ Free Expression) From the article — My guess is that decades from now, historians will look at this period and conclude that well-intended public-health officials simply overreacted to the sudden appearance of a deadly and contagious pathogen. They got the response wrong because the world was in a…

The Top 5 Plus (June 6)

1) “The merciless mistreatment of Henry Nowak: The harrowing footage of Henry’s dying moments is a searing indictment of our bigoted, unfeeling state.” (Brendan O’Neill, spiked!) From the article — For me, the most chilling thing in the bodycam footage of Henry Nowak’s last moments of life is the cops’ cruel presumption that he is lying. As…

The Top 5 Plus (May 30)

 1) “Under The New Global Religion of Tolerance, The Truth Must Never Trump ‘Unity’” (David Bowen, Harbinger’s Daily) From the article — We are living in an age where tolerance has become the supreme virtue of modern society. Governments promote it. Corporations market it. Schools teach it. Media platforms enforce it. Religious leaders increasingly preach it. At…

The Top 5 Plus (May 23)

1)“America at 250: Museum or Nation?” (James Thorne, Real Clear Politics) From the article — As Oswald Spengler warned, civilizations decay when faith gives way to technique, politics becomes administration, and ruling classes lose the will to defend what made their civilization worth inheriting. The European Union offers the modern template: technocracy without vigor, regulation without…

What’s A.I. Saying About Vital Signs Ministries?

After a conversation with a friend lately about the increasing presence and influence of A.I. on all aspects of our lives, we decided to try a couple of experiments. We thought you might find the results of interest also. Here’s the deal — we asked an A.I. program to “tell us about” 1) Vital Signs Ministries, 2) “When Swing…

The Top 5 Plus (May 9)

1) “5 Insights from Ben Sasse as He Faces His Last Days on Earth” (Kathy Athearn, Washington Stand) From the article — Fifty-four-year-old former Nebraska senator, husband, and father of three, Ben Sasse, was tragically diagnosed only six months ago with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and told he had three to four months to live. While the…

The Top 5 Plus (May 2)

1) “Political Violence Is Cool Now: Why do so many elites support violent extremism?” (James B. Meigs, Free Expression WSJ) From the article — All the cool kids think killing people is OK now. Or at least understandable, as long as the killer has, like, a really good reason. Few of the people who talk this way…

But be doers of the word,
and not hearers only.