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5. Solzhenitsyn's Graduation Speech
Revisited |
Chuck
Colson Centre Breakpoint: Speaking Truth to
Culture
John
Stonestreet|June 9, 2015
In 1978, at
Harvard, America heard from a prophetic voice. His comments have proven true and
are worth revisiting.
Few college
commencement speakers these days dare challenge our culture’s rampant political
correctness and secularism.
But a
generation ago, on June 8, 1978, the renowned Soviet dissident Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn gave a stunning address at Harvard
University that not only made those assembled there
uncomfortable; it provoked many to boo.
Why would the
audience boo this moral giant, who had stared down a brutal communist
dictatorship’s Gulags and won the Nobel Prize in literature? Because people
expected him to celebrate the West and condemn communism, but he came over and
condemned communism and the West. Not only this, but Solzhenitsyn
had the gall to speak of something reviled at the time by the elites on both sides of the Atlantic: truth.
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John
Stonestreet will be in Australia in Mid July speaking in various venues such as
the ACS Leaders
Retreat
I'm off to Cambodia with twelve Charles Sturt University students
including six shown below, to work in Christian
orphanages
run by One2One a NZ Christian Charity. We may also treat those
working in a YWAM ministry who have lost limbs through
land mines.
We will be having a meal with the Deputy PM of Cambodia and Barnabas Mam one of the few survivors
of the killing fields.
Appreciate your
prayers,
Graham
HELPING ORPHANS: Dr Graham McLennan (seated) with Glen Hilton, Eric
Cullen, Erin Currier, Daren Vujovic, Caitlin Crowley and Sam Hill from Charles
Sturt University Orange who are travelling to Cambodia to treat children in
orphanages. Photo: STEVE GOSCH
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