Intervals and then there will be 15 minutes for all of you to ask any questions that you may have of them. The first panelist is dr. Thomas g. Burton, he is a Professor Emeritus of english at east Tennessee State university. He has produced three documentaries on sir spent handling and is the author of serpent handling believers, the serpent and the spirit, and Beach Mountain man, the memoirs of rhonda helix, his most recent book, voices worth the listening, three women of appalachia, is out now from Mercury University press. Please join me in welcoming tornado thomas burt dr. Thomas burton. The next person i would like to introduce is sarah smarsh. She is a kansasbased journalist who has reported for the New York Times, the guardian and other approximations. Per book pout working hard and being broke in the richest country on earth, very relatable title, let me tell you, what finalist for the National Book award, 2018 Research Fellow at Harvard Universitys center on media politics and
Hurricane season. Unemployment emergency. This weekend millions of americans benefits are set to expire. Hear whats holding up a new round of support in congress, plus find out what the president just said he regrets. And chief decision. The first medical doctor to play in the nfl opts out of the 2020 season. Hear the super bowl champs reason why, and find out how much he stands to lose from the move. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Tropical storm hanna could very well become a categoryone hurricane making landfall somewhere around the Corpus Christi area. South texas is bracing for a possible hurricane. Warnings are up along the 200mie200 200mile stretch of the gulf coast. Hurricane douglas is starting to weaken. Thats good news. Reporter nearly 74,000 americans tested positive for covid19 in just 24 hours. It will take a few weeks, maybe three weeks or so, to see the downturn. And once youre on a downturn, dont declare victory.
Why is in crisis half of the description clicks because 11 million americans upwards of 4 million are receiving no treatment to their lives lost to psychosis untreated serious Mental Illness represents a huge and unnecessary loss of human potential. It also makes our more dire social mission such as random acts of violence and sheltered homelessness Substance Abuse, and the disturbing rise of the rate of suicide i want to emphasize these problems are exacerbated not by serious Mental Illness but exacerbated by serious Mental Illness. Todays historic conversation draws broadly on the expertise of people from many disciplines and experiences and perspectives our goal is to put on the table a robust set of reforms how we go about delivering treatment to persons with serious Mental Illness. The Trump Administration has already begun the process of rebuilding our treatment system this very week the president will sign fiscal year 2020 appropriations bill that makes important in the improvem
So thank you very much. If you would like to make a donation, you can see me afterwards, and i can introduce you to the right people who would love to talk with you. So a little bit of housekeeping. Im going to introduce our author, Erick Erickson, and then hes going to speak a little bit, and then well open the floor up to questions. If you do have a question, please coup up at the mic queue end an the mic over here. We want the audience at home to be able to here as well. Erick erickson is the popular host of atlantas evening news, 95. 5 fm. Hes the former editor of red state. He launched his web site, the resurgent, in 2016. Hes also a Fox News Contributor who the atlantic has called the most powerful conservative in America Today. He studied Political Science and history at Mercer University and earned a law degree at walter f. George school of law. He lives in macon, georgia, with his family. In late 2016 he and his wife were both diagnosed with grave medical conditions. In the mi
An audible conversations welcome to tonights lecture. Before we get started you may have noticed a few cameras in the room, please turn off all of your devices. Please do that if you are interested in asking a question. We are very excited about tonights program. Its a pleasure to welcome the lecture featuring francis struggled. Its made for the generosity of the livingston foundation. In new york city and graduating from Radcliffe College came of age in the vietnam war era and the vietnamese and americans in vietnam the history of vietnam and the involvement in that country the book was awarded the pulitzer prize, the bancroft prize and the National Book award. Shes since authored numerous works of American History and works have appeared in such publications as the new yorker, New York Times magazine and rolling stone. She will discuss the most recent book the evangelicals to shape america. She traces the history of the protestant evangelism from its beginnings in the great awakening