I am pleased to deliver to you Episode 174 where I report on President Trump's address to the joint session of Congress, the beginning of Ramadan, the history of the Temple Mount, the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. 

Jude 33 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 

President Donald Trump’s speech on Tuesday evening resonated deeply with people of faith, as he reaffirmed his commitment to religious liberty, family values, and policies that align with conservative principles. His address emphasized the importance of protecting American traditions, defending religious freedoms, and ensuring that faith remains central to the nation’s moral and cultural fabric. 

• Religious Liberty: Trump pledged to protect religious institutions and individuals from government overreach, reaffirming support for faith-based organizations.

• Family & Traditional Values: Emphasized strong families, pro-life policies, and resisting cultural shifts away from traditional values.

• National Security & Christian Communities: Highlighted victories against ISIS and reinforced commitment to protecting persecuted Christians globally.

• Economic Empowerment for Faith-Based Groups: Advocated fair trade and deregulation to strengthen faith-based charities, churches, and businesses.

  It's clear by the agenda that has been set before the American people by our commander in chief that we, the faith community, have a lot to celebrate - but also a lot of work to do.We have an administration that will work with us, celebrate, and even champion our values. It is also evident that our nation is still greatly divided, and therefore, we have the significant responsibility to pray for our leaders and pray for our nation.

Dear Friends,

I forward to you the RLR for this week.

On this week's report I cover 

SANCTUARY CHURCHES FOR THE UNDOCUMENTED, YESTERDAY and TODAY;
THE UNDOCUMENTED in PLACES OF WORSHIP; and 
SWALLOWED BY A WHALE OF THE COAST OF CHILE.

South Florida Bible College is honorably referenced at minute 28:00.

Thank you for your valuable support. 

Alexander J. Alfano* 
ATTORNEY AT LAW

I deliver to you RLR 172 where we cover the following items:

FLORIDA LEADING THE WAY IN SO MANY WAYS (parental rights, pro life legislation, protecting our youth, protecting pastors and ministries)

REBUILDING GAZA PART 2

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL (in the 20th and 21st Centuries)

The honorable mention of South Florida Bible College and Theological Seminary can be heard at minute 27:00. 

Thank you for your valuable support.

Alexander Joseph Alfano, Esquire
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Here you have RLR 171 where we covered various White House initiatives relating to religious liberty, the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, and President Trump's plan to rebuild Gaza.

South Florida Bible College receives honorable mention at approximately minute 27:00  

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This week's episode reviews the 2025 GLOBAL CHRISTIAN RELIEF Red List, 2025 US Supreme Court cases relating to religious liberties to watch, and the five TRUMP executive orders that address religious liberties.

This week's report discusses the 7th US President and how Andrew Jackson resembles our incoming president, the US national debt, and the rise of Artificial Intelligence. 

The Problem Is the Banana on the Wallby John Horvat II
November 28, 2024

The Problem Is the Banana on the WallEveryone has an explanation for the turn of events in November.

It’s the economy, the culture, a failure to connect with working-class Americans. All these are valid reasons.However, I have my own explanation that sheds some light on what has gone wrong in America. It explains something of the craziness of our times. I think the problem is the banana on the wall.I know it sounds exoteric, but let me explain. I think the banana metaphor will help clarify why some Americans reacted during the election.

An Auction in New YorkMy reasoning centers on a recent event in New York City in which the renowned Sotheby’s auction house sold a 2019 art piece dubbed “Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan. The work consisted of a fresh banana duct-taped to the wall.The bidding started at $800,000, and within five minutes, the item sold for $5.2 million plus auction house fees, which came to a total of $6.2 million. The new owner is Chinese-born crypto-businessman Justin Sun.

The actual banana cost thirty-five cents when bought in the morning at an Upper East Side fruit stand. The new owner will get a certificate of authenticity and installation instructions should he want to replace the banana before it rots. Mr. Sun has already announced that he will eat the original banana “as part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture.”

Commenting after the sale, Billy Cox, a Miami art dealer with his own copy of “Comedian,” says the work is something of historical importance that comes only “once or twice a century.”The Elephant in the Room Is the Banana on the WallSomething is profoundly wrong here.

That’s why I think the problem with our country is the banana on the wall. It’s the elephant in the room that no one wants to see.We are living in a society where certain liberal sectors inhabit an alternative reality where thirty-five-cent bananas are handled as multimillion-dollar works of art. The problem is that they want to force everyone else in society to believe their madness.The only way to get out of this mess is for innocent souls with enough common sense to break the spell of this absurd consensus by crying out, “It’s not art! It’s just a banana! Can’t you see?”

Insisting on AbsurditiesTo return to our original problem, what happened in November was a clash of two groups. The first are those who do not want to see the absurdity of the banana on the wall and dogmatize that it is art. They create their own reality and impose it on the nation.The second group consists of those tired of being told a banana taped to the wall is art. They long to live in a world where art is art and bananas are bananas.In the election, some of the latter group said, “Enough is enough.”Other Bananas on the Wall

This reaction was not against a single banana on one wall.You see, there is the banana that claims a man is a woman and a woman is a man. Other bananas claim that people can choose their pronouns, pornography in libraries is literature or that it is just fine for men to compete with women in sports. We are told drag queen story hours are suitable for children, after-school Satan Clubs are educational and it is not a human baby but a clump of cells.

It is all part of a vast banana extravaganza that we are asked to admire and make believe is the blueprint for a dream society. 

Sensible people are starting to do the unthinkable: Question the real value of these bananas of absurdity that appear on the walls of our wayward culture.An AwakeningThus, the election represents an awakening that comes none too soon. When absurdities are enshrined in a culture, anything can happen. Truth is denied, morals are eroded and a cult of ugliness reigns. The cruelest manifestations of intolerance and cancellation are possible since the absurd demands absolute acceptance. It cannot tolerate innocent souls that call a spade a spade and denounce the nonsense of the banana on the wall.

The time has come for a return to order and sanity. It is long past time to take the bananas off the wall.

Merry Christmas to you. This week's episode focuses on American jurisprudence as it relates to Christmas displays on public property, Charlie Brown's "true meaning of Christmas", and two classic Nativity poems.

The spot highlighting South Florida Bible College can be heard at approximately the 27:00 minute mark. 

An article by Stephen Lind Associate Professor of Clinical Business Communication, University of Southern California serves as a basis for the section on Charlie Brown's "true meaning of Christmas."

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). 

Legal challenges to Christmas and holiday displays have been going on for decades. In order to combat the anti-Christmas sentiment outside of the courtroom, a nonprofit religious liberty organization is encouraging shoppers to do so with their wallets. Liberty Counsel's Naughty and Nice List classifies retailers according to whether they censor or celebrate Christmas — an allusion, of course, to Santa's list of naughty and nice children from the Christmas standard "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town."Urging Americans "to give the gift of Christmas back to the companies who support it," the group says, "If retailers choose to profit from Christmas while pretending it does not exist, we encourage you to politely explain why and then patronize their competitors." 

The list forms part of Liberty Counsel's annual "Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign," which the organization launched in 2003 to counter a rising tide of opposition to the public celebration of Christmas."The war against Christmas is nothing new, and it is certainly evident today in the form of religious discrimination and hostility," says Liberty Counsel founder and Chairman Mat Staver. "Repressive forces have always had the same goal — to first secularize and then to eliminate Christmas and Christian symbols, celebrations and speech.

In America, the First Amendment is a guard against censorship and religious hostility. In the retail market, the consumer can decide to patronize stores that recognize Christmas and avoid those that profit from Christmas while pretending it does not exist."

The Atlantic is a monster in autumn. And her violent rages have claimed countless ships over the ages. But this crossing was especially bad. The Pilgrims spent the whole time cramped below deck. Trapped in a dark, cold, and wet cargo hold. Crouching because the ceilings were too low for them stand. Breathing in the stench of rancid puke, which slushed around their feet as the Mayflower was rocked by ocean swells. Sometimes, the storms were so severe that her crew had no choice but to lower the sails and let the Mayflower drift for days on end. The gales were so powerful they would have ripped off her masts and left them all stranded. One pilgrim who did venture on deck was swept overboard. Luckily for him, quick-witted sailors were able to throw him a line and pull him from the ocean before he drowned. But he learned his lesson. 

After 66 grueling days at sea, on the morning of November 9, 1620, Mayflower's crew espied Cape Cod. As the sun was rising behind them. They had finally reached the New World. And just in time for winter. 

004 The Mayflower has successfully made it across the Atlantic, though she sustained a lot of damage along the way and was almost wrecked. The pilgrims intended to land on the mouth of the Hudson River. However, traumatized and exhausted from crossing the Atlantic, with the Mayflower severely damaged, they dropped anchor in Cape Cod Bay. Another child was born a few days later. They named him Peregrine, from the Latin Peregrinus — which means "one who has travelled from distance lands". He was their first American.