Allen R. Hunt's Blog, page 25

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OK, so we had some recording issues down at the station tonight. A little malfunction, shall we say? But the good news is we have still loaded this Sunday's shows up on the site and Itunes. 

And you should listen - because these were three very entertaining hours. Wow - nights like tonight remind me what a sacred privilege God has given me to be on the air to discuss real life and faith, right and wrong.

As you listen, you will also hear the ads this week. That is due to how we had to reconstruct the recording. Don't worry - the ads won't hurt you - they might even help you. Listen and give thanks that they make my show and WSB possible. I am grateful for them and for   >>>>>   Read Entire Post

We're Better than You Think

Maybe it's just the summer doldrums. The heat wears on people and can make us exceedingly negative. Plus we've had a good dose of bad news of late. And if you're not careful, you begin to focus on a few dead trees rather than the healthy forest. 

America will be just fine. Our vital signs are healthy. We will overcome our problems and challenges because we have remarkable strengths like

1) The dream factor. Millions (perhaps billions) of humans in other countries long to come here because they know that America is still the place where they can fulfill their dreams. No other country captures the imagination and the delight of the possible like America.

2) Innovation. Dreams become reality here because 1/3 of all the money invested in research and development is spent in the U.S. And we account for nearly 1/2 of all the world's patents.

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Podcast listener news

Update for listeners to the show and especially for podcasters. 

With the start of Georgia football in a few weeks, NewsTalk WSB makes a few adjustments to weekend programming to accommodate the addition of Bulldog games on Saturdays. So, on a few occasions in the Fall, my show will be compressed to two hours rather than the full three. That will be the case two or three times, based on the kickoff time of Georgia games and the related need to juggle the weekend schedule. 

All that to say, when you find two hours uploaded for listening, you are not missing an hour. It is just a weekend when the schedule got rearranged, and my show was 2 hours instead of 3.

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Best Place in the World to Grow Up

Captain Herb Emory at News Talk WSB shared this with me today. We both had the good fortune to grow up in the land of waterfalls. Aerial views and with Fall leaves. Great   >>>>>   Read Entire Post

The Smart Money is on God

Stupid people go to church. Stupid people believe in God. Stupid people are religious. Those three statements often make up the mantra of the noisy atheist crowd or the faith-allergic mainstream media.

And they would be wrong. A new study from the University of Nebraska shows that with additional education, you grow MORE likely to believe in God, more likely to occasionally read Scripture, and more likely to attend worship. Smart people believe in God and worship Him.

How could this be? I'd like to think that the more educated you become, the more you realize how little you actually know. The more you realize just how little we know about all the mystery in our world and our behavior. In other words, I'd like to think that more education often brings more humility. Because when you come to face the   >>>>>   Read Entire Post

Et tu, USA?

Great column by Peggy Noonan this week regarding the UK riots, but she does not take the argument far enough.

She is right in being horrified that the riots in Britain came largely from well-off, rootless young people. They think life is merely about getting "stuff." Cell phones, booze and fashionable clothes. No looting of bookstores from these thugs. 

Noonan fails to point out that these kids have grown up in a culture where faith has been pushed to the side so they possess no hope. No sense that life has a larger meaning or purpose. The Church of England is irrelevant, and the march toward an entirely secular culture has led to its inevitable end: meaningless materialism. Nothing greater than the here and now and what gives me pleasure today. 

And there kids have grown up in a   >>>>>   Read Entire Post

The Good Life in Prison

Today I am working on a Bible study tentatively called "The Good Life." How do you have the good life? That's a great question when times are tough and all the news seems bad, huh?

If you know me, you know that I look for hope in a Roman prison. Ancient Roman prisons were dark, dank and desperate. Full of death. Often all you could hear outside the prison was the wailing and moaning of prisoners. Prisoners were usually held in a cave beneath the ground and often were not fed unless they had friends who brought food. Most prisoners died there in custody from starvation and deprivation. You get the picture - ancient prisons were hellish places.

And that is where the apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Philippians. Easily the most joyful text in the Bible. The words "joy" or "rejoice" appear 16 times in   >>>>>   Read Entire Post

Emails of the Week: Dogs or Humans?

Last week's weekly email set off a flurry of emails. A lot of folks with a lot of opinions on whether airlifting an injured dog from the middle of the forest was a worthwhile venture. You know my position:

1) Dogs are great. But they are not humans. Humans are of more worth than animals because we are made in the image of God and have the gift of reason.

2) Using taxpayer money (in California of all places!) to rescue a dog via airlifting is patently absurd and wasteful.

3) Asking rescue workers to endanger themselves on behalf of a dog is wrong.

4) What would happen if there were a true emergency requiring airlifiting while the team was already in the middle of rescuing a dog? Crazy but possible nonetheless. I would not be excited about my daughter requiring assistance in a car wreck but dying while waiting for a dog with scuffed paws to be rescued from a hike.

Again, I love   >>>>>   Read Entire Post

Bitter Pill Reality

I originally posted this almost two years ago and now it is reality. I will share more about this on the show tonight but want you to be able to find the research I mention here.

 

I mentioned this piece by Timothy Reichert in First Things regarding the pill. It seems particularly relevant given the push for ObamaCare to subsidize heavily or even give away the birth control pill as "preventive health care." As if pregnancy were a disease or an illness. Contrary to popular opinion (with the media's ignorance of social data), the birth control pill actually harms women and children and places a greater economic burden on them. More single moms, fewer marriages, lower expectations of men, more illegitimate children, more adultery, more divorces, and more abortions. Thus, more women and children living in poverty. All brought to you by the pill and its miraculous promise of sexual   >>>>>   Read Entire Post

Intolerable Cruelty

By happenstance, in flipping channels last night, I landed on "Intolerable Cruelty." Never heard of the 2003 movie but it had George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones. What the heck? I'll give it a shot.

A pleasant surprise. The Coen Brothers have produced a really fun, light-hearted satire of marriage, pre-nups, and how Americans view marriage. Clooney plays a divorce lawyer skiled at making the most of other people's train wrecked relationships. CZJ turns the tables on him in a very ironic way. Kind of reminds me of Clooney's performance in O, Brother, Where Art Thou, where he played a wide-eyed caricature. Similar style and feel in this one.

Funny that I had never even heard of this movie before but I recommend it. 

AHS Grade: A solid   >>>>>   Read Entire Post