Holocaust Remembrance Day: Just one person can make a difference. My father and the Shoah | Fox News

As an Israeli diplomat to the United Nations, the annual Holocaust Memorial ceremony has always had profound resonance.

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January 27, 2016 by James Ross Kelly

Holocaust Remembrance Day – Because the best way to bless Israel is with Jesus

I had an operation once and the anesthetist comes and looks at my arm and he says, ‘What is this?’ And I said, ‘That’s from Auschwitz.’ And he said, ‘Auschwitz, what was that?’

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January 25, 2016 by James Ross Kelly

Hear All Three of Jack Kerouac’s Spoken-World Albums: A Sublime Union of Beat Literature and 1950s Jazz | Open Culture

At the epicenter of three explosive forces in 1950s America—the birth of Bebop, the spread of Buddhism through the counterculture, and Beat revolutionizing of poetry and prose—sat Jack Kerouac, though I don’t picture him ever sitting for very long.

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January 18, 2016January 18, 2016 by James Ross Kelly

Martin Luther King–“I’ve seen the promised land”

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.

The audience could not know that their hero would be gunned down the very next day.

January 18, 2016 by James Ross Kelly

Martin Luther King–How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust?

How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

January 18, 2016 by James Ross Kelly

Martin Luther King–Midnight of Moral Degeneration

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing. Right and wrong are relative to likes and dislikes and the customs of a particular community. We have unconsciously applied Einstein’s theory of relativity, which properly described the physical universe, to the moral and ethical realm. . . . This mentality has brought a tragic breakdown of moral standards, and the midnight of moral degeneration deepens.