Well, it's New Year's Eve here on the Line of Fire. We've got some words of encouragement for you today.

It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President

of Fire School of Ministry. Get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 Truth. That's

86634 Truth. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown. Can you believe it? It's actually New Year's Eve,

2018, a year in many ways which has been significant, the way 1968 was significant, a year of real upheaval and shaking. In America and around the world, 50 years later, 2018 has been quite a year. I want to talk to you about

2018. I want to talk to you about moving forward into 2019. Thank you for joining us on

the line of fire. Also, I'm going to open up the phone lines. Many of you would like to call

during the show, ask questions, give your point of view on something

take issue with me on something but your work schedule doesn't permit it maybe you're off today

and we're live so here's the number to call 866 34-truth 866 348 7884 got that all right

any subject if you wanted to talk to, didn't have an opportunity or had a

question for me, we'll see if we can get to some of your calls as well. I've often taught about the

upheaval in America and even in other nations during the 60s. It was a tumultuous time. It was a revolutionary time. One sociologist

commented to me that it was to be expected in that after World War II, as couples now were

getting married, as babies were being born, that now when you get into the 60s, you have a large number of young people.

And the sociologist said to me, it's sociology 101, that when you have an unusually large

number of young people born in a given generation, that that will also produce a lot more upheaval, a lot more societal shifts and things like that.

Young people tend to push back against boundaries more,

and there can often be more violence and more challenge of authority and things like that.

That is largely what happened in the 60s, and in many ways, it was a tumultuous time around the

world. Psychologist David Myers said that if you fell asleep in 1960 and woke up in the year

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