Here to talk with us about what we became known 102 years ago as spanish flu is Catherine Arnold who poured over eyewitness accounts of the illness from its early beginnings at places like a military base in kansas to its effects on a number of american writers like John Steinbeck. She read english at the university of cambridge and holds a further degree in psychology and is the author of several books about the history oflondon and her book globe, the world of shakespeares london published by simon and schuster in 2015 and shes joining us today from the uk. Welcome catherine. Thank you for being here with us. In telling the story of this disease you focus on firstperson accounts from doctors, nurses and children all over the world. Did you choose to take such a personal view of the pandemic . I wanted to write a book that people can relate to but theres the story about where people can read it and find characters like themselves. It was almost like a disaster movie. Weve got people o
All information. Representative ilhan omar, democrat of community, has a new becomebook out called. This is what america looks like. Thank you nor janing us. Two characters in your become, baba and abe. Who are the. Guest any grandfather and father. Abe is the word we use for dad in somali. And baba is the traditional word used in the middle east for father. And since i was born in his house, thats what his children called him and we continue to call him that as well. So, they were both father figures to me and so i continue to call them abe and baba. Host what were the first eight or so years or your life like . Guest peaceful. I had a really enjoyable childhood. I grew up in a household where we had not just my siblings and my father but my extend family lived with us, my uncles and my aunties and grandfather. My greatgrandmother was always around. And so it was a very loving environment. I was raised by educators and so education was a huge part of our life and we all loved learning
For god and country, the christian case for trump. Mr. Reed, what is that case and. Guest well, the case in a nutshell is that as christians, were called to not only be citizens of the kingdom of god, which is both here now and yet to come, and were also called to be citizens on earth of whatever policy or society or nation we happen to be part of. And were if you look at the old and the new testament, theres a consistent and clear teaching that we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion. First of all to defend our rights, within that government, which of course in the United States means rights under the constitution and at the bill of rights, to a freedom of speech to assembly to tree dom of religion. Freedom of religion that are our birthright and then secondly as a witness of our faith. So in the context of the decision by the overwhelming majority of evangelical christians and pro life and pro family and faithful roman catholics to back trump, both in 201
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Bible in his hand. What do you think the president s message at that moment was . Guest i think the point the president was making, this is one of the most historic sacred sites in our country. This is a place where president s have worshiped. It is known as the church of president s. I was very privileged and honored to be with the president and his family and friends at st. Johns, the morning of his inaugural, to pray for him, for his family, to pray for the Vice President and his family, and to have a service dedicating his administration to the common good of the people and to the glory of god and the building of his kingdom. I know it is a special place of the president and all americans, to see rioters attempting to burn that historic structure, with all of its symbolism, to the ground, i dont want to speak for the president but as an american, i was glad that he went there. It was symbolic, that is important. The things he does with the bully pulpit of his office conveys a messa