There’s been a lot of talk about how Glenn Beck and the conservative movement in general have tried to associate themselves with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
One thing that struck me was how many of the conservatives seemed to be getting their entire understanding of Dr. King from his “I have a Dream” speech. [...]
The debate over the Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan heats up. Over at Religion Dispatches, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri compares the current flap to 19th century paranoia about Catholicism. One Catholic, not to be outdone, decided to win back the coveted “most distrusted” award by arguing that only virtuous Catholics should be allowed to [...]
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 28 of Pillars of Faith
Thou Shalt Not Lie
David Barton is reclaiming America for the Lord. He is tirelessly educating Americans about their historical roots and beloved constitution. He talks about the secular invasion in America, and he’s taking it back and giving it to God.
We’ve heard about one nation under [...]
During the western Middle Ages, Christian monasteries would compete for pilgrims by boasting of the relics of saints held within their walls. The more prestigious the relic, the higher the status conferred to the monastery and the greater the lines of pilgrims at the gate, hoping for healing, miracles or the forgiveness of sins.
In [...]
In James Shapiro’s history of the Shakespeare skeptics, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare, he mentions in passing a historian and Lutheran minister with the irresistible name of Samuel Mosheim Schmucker. Schmucker was the author of a work entitled Historic Doubts about Shakespeare, which may have been the first published work suggesting that Shakespeare, if [...]
by VorJack
As an upstate resident, I generally ignore the goings-on downstate, so I’ve never really formed an opinion of Michael Bloomberg. But the recent speech that Daniel quoted is pitch perfect and historically grounded. Here’s a selection:
Of all our precious freedoms, the most important may be the freedom to worship as we wish. [...]
by VorJack
Mother Jones has an article about Bob Inglis, the former US Representative from South Carolina. Inglis is a profoundly conservative Republican, but wound up losing to another Republican in the primaries because he “strayed from his conservative roots.”
Some of that may be because he voted against the Surge in Iraq, [...]
by VorJack
Over at the Accidental Historian, Geds is starting a series on the Byzantine Empire. Like all good historians, he realizes that to talk about a period of history, he has to go back to well before that period actually began. Back to, say, when the universe cooled enough for protons to form.
Geds [...]
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