The Sun Also Rises

This episode details a rescue attempt by Israeli officials on June 8, 2024, that is among the most daring, high-risk, complex and heroic missions in recent military history. To hear the Trumpet Daily episode examining Mr. Herbert Armstrong's writings about lessons from Operation Entebbe that are applicable in our lives, which takes on fresh relevance in light of Operation Arnon, click here: "Never Compromise With the Chief Terrorist."

This episode details a rescue attempt by Israeli officials on June 8, 2024 that is among the most daring, high-risk, complex and heroic missions in recent military history. To hear the Trumpet Daily episode examining Mr. Herbert Armstrong's writings about lessons from Operation Entebbe that are applicable in our lives, which takes on fresh relevance in light of last month's Operation Arnon, click here: "Never Compromise With the Cheif Terrorist."

This episode examines the alien worlds—exoplanets—that astonomers have discovered. It discusseses the ongoing search for Earth 2.0, and the implications this has for each one of us. Order your free copy of The Incredible Human Potential.

When the sun came up on May 28 back in the year 585 BC, the Medes and Lydians were still at war. They had been at each other's throats for years, and it looked like there was no end in sight for their conflict. But something extraordinary happened on the battlefield that day, which changed everything. This episode also features an interview with Mr. Stephen Coats, instructor of earth science at Imperial Academy, and with Dr. Fred Espenak, an astrophysicist and scientist emeritus at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

This episode focuses on individuals and organizations that are helping victims of Russia's war on Ukraine in remarkable ways.

The Aral Sea was victim to the worst man-made ecological disaster in history. Now part of it is coming back to life, and the restoration has implications for the whole world. Order your free copy of The Wonderful World Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like.

In this episode, we look at the magic that can happen at the intersection of music and language— magic so powerful it may have played a role in bringing down the Soviet Union. As Edgar Yipsel Harburg said, "Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.” Order your free copy of How God Values Music "The Two Grenadiers" (with English subtitles)

One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's main goals in this year's invasion of Ukraine was to quickly conquer the port city of Mariupol so that he could then devote more troops and resources to subduing Kyiv and the rest of the nation. But the defenders of Mariupol put up lionhearted resistance for months on end that defied all expectations and changed the course of the war. This episode looks at their remarkable and inspiring stand against evil.

China's Loess Plateau was anciently a lush area. But as more people made it their home, the demand for resources grew. Over the course of thousands of years, aggressive farming and overgrazing stripped away the vegetation almost entirely. This lead to severe soil erosion and eventually turned the Loess plateau into basically a denuded desert. In the mid 1990s, Chinese and foreign scientists and civil engineers surveyed this area to see if anything could be done to restore the land. The project that followed has implications for much of the planet. Links Isaiah's End-Time Vision John Liu's documentary

The Hubble Space Telescope was a game-changer, letting humankind peer back in time and tease mind-stretching secrets from the cosmos. But the James Webb Space Telescope—scheduled for launch into space later this year—promises to allow us see even further back. While Hubble was able to see what you could call toddler galaxies, the JWST will be able to look back 13.5 billion years and see infant galaxies—the first ones ever formed. It is expected to rewrite our astronomy textbooks in ways that we can't yet even imagine. UPDATE: NASA announced on June 1 that while it had been working toward an October 31, 2021 launch date, it will be delayed by a few weeks and instead take place in November or early December. Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum James Webb Space Telescope Website The Incredible Human Potential Our Awesome Universe Potential

Life is full of defaults. Many of them are so entrenched they are hard to even recognize as optional. "Few, indeed, ever stop to ask themselves in retrospect how they came to accept the beliefs that have found lodgment in their minds," the late Mr. Herbert Armstrong observed this in his book Mystery of the Ages. This episode takes a look at some of the defaults of life, and why we are prone to leave them unquestioned. Mystery of the Ages Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“We know more about the surface of the Moon and about Mars than we do about the deep sea floor,” oceanography Paul Snelgrove said. Today's episode aims to shine a bit of light into the obscurity of the deeps. Map of Mars Map of the Moon Map of the ocean floor Does God Exist?

An old English proverb states: "A good example is the best sermon." Today's episode examines some accounts illustrating this point. Order your free copy of Mr. Gerald Flurry's The God Family Vision

This episode examines some aspects of the animal that in ancient Greece was called the “cameleopard.”

On this day 75 years ago, August 6 of 1945, history was forever changed as a devastating new type of weapon was used on people for the first time. For this special episode of The Sun Also Rises, we feature a guest presenter who has a deep personal connection to this history-altering event. Order your free copy of Mr. Herbert W. Amrstong's The Wonderful World Tomorrow—What It Will Be Like.

Winston Churchill has been called history's greatest political watchman, and the man whose foresight saved the Western world during World War II. But would he have developed such phenomenal foresight and accomplished such a momentous feat if he hadn't been taught, nurtured and loved as a child? Churchill's parents almost totally neglected him. But the void they left was filled, as best it could be, by another figure—a person to whom each of us today owes a considerable debt of gratitude. This episode tells her story. Order your free copy of Winston S. Churchill: The Watchman.

As the world continues through this surreal year, it's an excellent time for us to study what Hubble has shown us since its launch—30 years ago this month. In this episode, we also look ahead to Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, which will launch next March. These incredible projects mean the cosmos's breathtaking message is now displayed with unprecedented clarity. Do you see what it is showing us? Links Hubble's 100 most astounding images Deep Field images The Key of David: "Our Awesome Universe Potential—Part 1" Our Awesome Universe Potential

In this episode, we interview writer and director Matthew Rosen to learn the little-known but riveting story of Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon's attempt to save 10,000 Jews from Hitler's slaughter. How to Be an Overcomer, by Mr. Gerald Flurry. More information about Mr. Rosen's movie Quezon's Game is available here.

“I am a friend of Plato, and a friend of Aristotle, but truth is my greater friend.” These are words from a personal notebook of Sir Isaac Newton, written when he was around 20 years old. With these words, he was proclaiming a revolutionary decision to search beyond the boundaries of classical teachings to understand the biggest questions about the world and universe. Proverbs 25 in the Bible says it is the honor of kings to search out the things that God has concealed. In Newton's search to understand various baffling aspects of the creation, he proved to be regal. And his search and his work made a momentous difference in the world. Links Mystery of the Ages Our Awesome Universe Potential

Education, Aristotle said, is an ornament in times of prosperity and a refuge in times of adversity. This episode shines the spotlight on some remarkable individuals who sacrificed in order to give others the precious and versatile gift of education. We also discuss the dimension that is woefully absent in modern education. The Key of David: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPLso_e6g5s

The post-World War II rebuilding and reeducation of Germany and Japan contains lessons that remain as relevant as ever, especially at this time of year, when we look forward to a time when the entire world will need to be rebuilt out of the ashes and reeducated.

This episode shines the spotlight on the Star Spangled Banner. September 14th will mark the 205th anniversary of the writing of America's National Anthem. It is observed as "Star Spangled Banner Day.” This episode shines the spotlight—and perhaps some of the rocket's red glare—on the Star Spangled Banner, to highlight just how extraordinary this anthem is in both history and substance, and asks whether the song may be a small but not insignificant part of the way God blessed America. Featuring an interview with Marc Ferris, author of Star Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem. Marc Ferris's book Star Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem: www.amazon.com/Star-Spangled-Ban…nal/dp/1421415186 The United States and Britain in Prophecy, by Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong: www.thetrumpet.com/literature/book…and_booklets/44

In this episode, guest host Mr. Joel Hilliker shares some profound and inspiring lessons from the Revolutionary War.

We've seen the grainy video footage of Neil Armstrong, and heard the recording of his famous words about the “small step." In our imaginations, this unbelievable achievement has essentially been distilled down to that. But it was the result of a massive team of people laboring for a decade on an effort unlike anything that came before it.

This episode shines the spotlight on some individuals, companies and organizations who have looked beyond the "bottom line."

Finland has just been named the happiest country in the world for the second year in a row. The U.S., meanwhile, has fallen in the rankings. People in America and around the world are asking: What is Finland doing right? Why are the Finns happy? Can the Finnish model be exported to other countries? For this episode, we traveled to Finland to observe and speak with its people and to try to get some insight into those questions.

On this episode, we discuss the "Curse of Knowledge," how each of us can overcome it, and why it is worth the effort.

When Irena Sendler saw the Nazis begin herding Jewish populations in Warsaw, Poland into squalid ghettos, she felt she had to help them. She decided to risk everything by trying to "rescue the drowning."

On this episode, we take a look at some buzzing, winged, armored and leggy aspects of the natural world. We put them under the magnifying glass and consider a few lessons we can learn from them.

“A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.” Those were the words of Joseph H Taylor Jr., who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993. This episode examines several recent scientific findings that provide confirmation of an ancient authority.

A growing body of evidence shows that language doesn't just give people a set of words to express their thoughts. It actually can have a heavy influence on those thoughts and on the behaviors they lead to. What would this mean for the thinking and behavior of a person who speaks a “pure language”?

The story of a group of men who undertook a mission so dangerous and so rapidly prepared that only a fiction writer would have been optimistic about how it would turn out. But they refused to compromise with evil, so they charged into it wholeheartedly. The episode is built around an exclusive interview with Dr. Iddo Netanyahu, notable historian and brother of Israel's Prime Minister.

On this episode, we discuss three remarkable yet mostly forgotten stories of heroism that occurred in Soviet Armenia in the 1970s and 80s—and a twist that connects them.

This episode examines how a serious injury sustained by a factory worker in 1867 not only changed the course of that man's life, but also set in motion a chain of events that changed the course of American history—in a way that countless people for generations have benefited from.

By the beginning of the 1800s, Bell Rock in Scotland's Firth of Forth was responsible for wrecking numerous ships each winter. It was clear to everyone that sailors needed to be warned. But since the Rock was miles from shore and submerged by the sea for all but two hours a day, experts thought it would be impossible to build a lighthouse there. For Robert Stevenson, the challenge would become an obsession.

There is little in the human experience that hooks attention and holds it like a story. In this episode, we demonstrate and explain the power of story. And we encourage listeners to more regularly tap into that power.

Despite America's deep-rooted problems, the nation remains an unmatched paragon of prosperity, providing opportunity and wealth for great numbers of people. But how and why did the United States became so exceptional? Pundits debating this question point to things like America's laissez-faire economic system, values, politics, societal mobility, freedom of religion and speech, and its prioritization of equal opportunity. But there is another, often overlooked answer. In many ways this unnoticed factor is the foundation that has made other aspects of America's success possible. It is a deeply inspiring facet of the U.S. that takes us all the way back into the mists of the earliest human history.

Friend or foe? Are you with us—or them? In certain clashes, this can be a gristly question for soldiers to answer. In ancient times, the Gileadites devised an ingenious way to differentiate between their own troops and those of the enemy, which lives on in the ever-expanding English language today. This episode of The Sun Also Rises discusses words and language and also examines a fascinating account from the Autobiography of Herbert W. Armstrong, elucidating how he became such a masterful communicator.

When the sun came up on May 28 in the year 585 BCE, the Medes and Lydians were still at war. They had been at each other's throats for years, and it looked like there was no end in sight for their conflict. But something extraordinary happened on the battlefield that day, which changed everything. This episode also features an interview with Dr. Fred Espenak, an astrophysicist, and scientist emeritus at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Gunter Wetzel was 22 years old when he decided that he had to get his family free. But how could he get himself, his wife and their two small children past all the soldiers and over the razor wire-topped walls keeping them inside of East Germany? Mr. Wetzel recently gave an interview to The Sun Also Rises, and, in this episode, he shares the astounding story of how human ingenuity and the longing to be free triumphed over Communist East Germany.

In the mid 1800s, a major medical breakthrough happened that has saved countless lives since then. But could it be that this life-saving knowledge was actually available to mankind for millennia before that breakthrough?

In today's episode, Mary Previte discusses a forgotten World War Two battle: The Girl Scouts vs. Imperial Japan. Mrs. Previte took part in the fight. Her story is astounding. A website dedicated to the survivors of the Weihsien Concentration Camp in Shantung Province, China. http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/