Say 18 years is just too long to wait. And americans prepared to mark Independence Day in the year of the coronavirus some say they want to celebrate the 4th of july as always others are angry at having their freedom to have fun restricted. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program and Istanbul Court has sentenced former Amnesty International later tanna kimmage to 6 Years Imprisonment on terrorism related charges the harsh verdict has ended what critics say was a politically motivated trial targeting opposition activists in turkey the court also sentenced 3 other turkish activists to prison 7 of the 11 defendants were acquitted german activist no was among them his arrest in a stand. 3 years ago triggered a crisis in relations between germany and turkey. And im now joined by human rights activist that one of the defendants in the trial was also arrested in 27 tane and spent more than 100 days in pretrial detention but was returned to germany late of that year peter thanks very much fo
Struggle to cope with one of the worlds highest infection rates. To nasa astronauts weather permitting set to launch into orbit in the 1st ever manned space flight by private companies. We begin in the u. S. State of minnesota where the death of a black man in Police Custody has sparked anger not only there but across the country for the 1st time in its history minnesotas governor has announced that hes fully mobilizing the National Guard. Im authorizing and talking to general jensen to fully mobilize the Minnesota National guard an action that has never been taken in 164 year history of the Minnesota National guard we will pull in assets as we have been doing and for those minnesotans who are wondering where are the fire trucks where are the police that are out there the situation was so broad and the tactics were so bent on causing destruction that every Single Person we had mobilized again the largest in state history last evening was engaged in that. Well the Police Officer at the
Useful information. Preachers evangelize in that sense only . Not at all. With us today is a literary scholar and teacher who will discuss with us how makers of art and literature, fiction, film, poultry, or bringing us good news and revealing to us truths that can help us live wisely and well if that is we know how to read their books and watch their films. How do we watch and read even the products of our secular culture so as to grow and wisdom and grace. Stay with us as we talk with doctor margaret about fiction, film, and faith around us and the depths of rich human insight that can be found in the best of the art. Welcome to, mosaic me our guest dr. Martin. Margaret. You are a teacher, a professor at the st. Patricks seminary. You have taught also at university dallas. You have an ma in systematic theology, and a doctoral degree from University Freiburg in theology. You are a learned scholar and an experienced teacher and writer. What do you want to talk about today in evangeliza
Welcome. We are delighted you are here. Briefly, the center is a relatively new project and our mission is to bring to bear on a a host of contemporary issues. We host Public Programs like these. We have a blog where historians write for us about contemporary hit issues from a historical specter. We are in the midst of a collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer to have more historical scholarship in local journalism. We have a number of things here in kansas and out in the community. If your joining us for the first time, welcome. We are delighted you are here and hope you stay connected to us. We have other programs and events for you to attend. We hope this is the beginning of a long relationship with the Lepage Center and villanova university. For those of you tune in on cspan or on our livestream, i should let you know this is the fourth in a series we have done this year on the subject of rigid revisionist history. You may be thinking, is revisionist history a contemporary iss
Seated next to her is devin pendis w srks pendas. He focuses on war crime trials. And next to him is our fault director of the la paige center, paul steege. Paul is focused on history, of every day life. Foe k focusing on germany, and were going to begin by learning about our scholars and where they come from on this question and topic and then we will dive into the conversation. So for now i will go back to jen for, allow me to welcome you to the la paige center. Tell me about your research and area of study. Im the executive director for the rowan center for Holocaust Research and human rights. We have multiple foci. One of the questions that were asked very often is so what. Were learning about other genocides, and what can we do about it now. So we made a decision to switch our emphasis so we could thans so what question that so many students have. My own research focuses on transgenerational holiday, and i came by way of education. I was an education professor, before that element