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Conclusion to “In God We Trust”
Conclusion: Thinking Historically about Christianity and the Founding (from John Fea's book In God We Trust: Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?) By this point in the book, you may be waiting for me to answer the question "Was American founded as a Christian nation?" with…
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A Christian Nation?
Part of me wants to republish here the Conclusion to this fine book rather than write an original review; so I have taken the liberty to reproduce here on my website the complete text of that final chapter from John Fea's book "In God We Trust." Feel free to skip my brief review…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Surprise!
It was good, mostly, six days on the road with Ben the videographer. We put up 8 travel videos and the response? 6,237 views on FB with 226 likes with another 896 views on the YouTube version of those same videos. Splendid, I think. But attendance was small, and many of the…
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Responding for the Trans Athlete
Responding for the Trans Athlete Debate “Our season ended because the opposing team was allowed to put a boy in as the pitcher on a girls’ softball team.” So wrote Kendall Kotzmacher about her experience as a collegiate athlete. You can read her whole story here:…
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Two Plus Two Equals Four
Andy lives next door to me with his wife and two small children. Actually, he lives ten feet from me: not as close as an apartment, but like a detached townhouse. He works from home and they school their children at home; but mostly they stay gone, on the road to yet another…
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Blessed Death
It is not right, ordinarily, to describe a death as something sorely needed. Sometimes, yes, we do wish specific people of wickedness, incompetence, or ill intent might pass on to their reward (whatever it might be). The saintly people, we want them to stay and speak and shine…
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Tentmakers Journal, by Paul Robertson
My long-time friend Paul Robertson of Houston was diagnosed with cancer 13 years ago. He was given a few years to live. But, praise God, he is very much alive and still fly fishing as often as he can. He is exactly my age. For these 13 years, Paul has periodically distributed…
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American Bloodlines
American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture By Sonya Lea A Review by Dr. Dwight A. Moody This book landed on my front porch August 14, precisely 90 years after the event it describes: the last public hanging in the United States. Sonya Lea wrote this book, in part because…
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Three Gospels? or One?
“Christ Died for Our Sins” proclaimed the framed bronze artwork that hung in our home throughout my childhood and youth. It is a quote from Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians and sums up the version of the Christian gospel that dominated my induction into life and religion.…