Michael Kellahan

The Holy Ghost is essentially the spirit of God that lives “within” each believer or corporately, the church. Many Christians credit the scriptures themselves with being the “living word” and the main way that God’s Holy Ghost communicates with us. It is designed to guide one back towards Christ. Whereas God the father drove the story forward towards Christ. The centre point of the Christian Bible is the empty cross and the empty tomb. If Jesus really rose from the dead, then what does one do with that information? Not Buddy Holly, Holly Valens and the Big Bopper :) Still, great song.

Some societies run smoothly. Others don’t. What makes the difference? As our new video explains, one of the biggest factors is something you can’t buy. Something you can’t pass a law for. And, in fact ... something you can’t even see.

In 1943 Churchill sent a memo to his service chiefs ordering them to be more careful in their choice of operational names, as real lives were at stake, and that it wouldn’t do to have parents and wives learn that their loved one had been killed as part of ‘Operation Ballyhoo.’

Imagine trying to explain this to aliens.

The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters to ten ordinary American citizens every single night, a practice he maintained with almost monastic devotion across all eight years, selecting the letters himself from the 40,000 that arrived daily at the White House, and his longtime correspondence director Fiona Reese confirmed that Obama would often weep privately while reading certain letters, folding them carefully before writing responses so personally detailed and emotionally present that recipients frequently described the experience of receiving them as the most significant moment of their lives, with one Ohio steelworker writing back to say that Obama's letter had physically stopped him from making a decision that would have permanently altered his family's future. What makes this practice almost unbearably moving is the detail that surfaced later — Obama never used a computer for these letters, always a black felt-tip pen, always legal yellow paper first as a draft, always rewritten onto White House stationery by hand a second time, because he believed, as he told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in a rare private conversation later recounted in her 2018 work, that the physical act of pressing pen to paper forced a quality of attention that typing simply could not replicate, a philosophy rooted in his years as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 where he developed the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from behind the insulating distance of institutions and screens."

Austin Applebee awarded a Gold Commendation. WA 🇦🇺