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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Rodda: "In the Interest of Historical Accuracy and Honesty, I Must Correct Myself"

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Chris Rodda writing at the Huffington Post . A taste: What is relevant about the members of that 1781 Congress who attended that church s...

West Coast Straussians, Harry Jaffa, Bad Originalism, and Teleocratic Fantasies

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By Peter Haworth. Here is part 1 ; here is part 2 . From part 2: If the sphere of religion was NOT viewed by the Framers to be within t...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Shain on Jaffa

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Originally published in 2007 , it was just recently re-published here . According to Jaffa, then, the poorly defined natural-law doctrines...
Sunday, October 27, 2013

Fea: Mark Noll Wins Lilly Fellows Book Award

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John Fea tells us about it here .
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Thomas Kidd: Evangelical Christians, Deists and America’s founding

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Read about it here . A taste: As I show in my book God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution , the relationship betw...

THROCKMORTON: David Barton: There Are About A Dozen Colleges That Are Right

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Check it out here . A taste: What I get out Barton’s statement is that if you question Barton’s claims, then you are not right biblically, ...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

CHARLES C. HAYNES: Dispelling the myth of a ‘Christian nation’

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I'm not sure we at American Creation caught this back in August. A taste: But in spite of this anxiety, drafters of the Constitutio...

Hart Reviews Fea

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Darryl Hart reviewed John Fea's book " Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction. " John Fea infor...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Throckmorton Moves to Patheos

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The 411 is here .
Saturday, October 05, 2013

Our Founding Fathers included Islam

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That's the title to this article in Salon by DENISE SPELLBERG that is an excerpt from her book . A taste: Amid the interdenominational...
Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Before David Barton, There Was Parson Weems

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As Warren Throckmorton reports here . And here is the site to which Dr. Throckmorton refers.
Monday, September 30, 2013

Michigan Filmmaker Pushes Christian Nation Nonsense

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That's the title to Ed Brayton's story here . A taste: I’d never heard of Joseph Zabrosky, who grew up in Brighton, Michigan and ...

Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: How Islam Shaped the Founders

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That's the title to a book review on The Daily Beast . This is the book . A taste from the review: Spellberg, associate professor of ...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

James Madison on UVA & Religion

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The way Jefferson's UVA dealt with religion was and is controversial. Here is James Madison to Frederick Beasley on the controversy, da...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Institute on the Constitution Misrepresents Study of Founding Era

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That's the title to Warren Throckmorton's post here . A taste: See the differences? Peroutka said Lutz and Hyneman studied the writ...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Sandefur on Legislative Prayer

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Check it out here . A taste: The reason Jesus asked to be left out of such things, and why James Madison reiterated this when explaining ...
Monday, September 16, 2013

New Post From Rodda on HuffPo

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Check it out here . A taste: The Jefferson Lies  being pulled by Thomas Nelson did not make this book go away any more than it made Barto...
Saturday, September 14, 2013

Politico on David Barton: What Will Evangelicals Do, Part Two

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That's the title to Warren Throckmorton's post here . A taste: Stephanie Simon told the tale. Although I have some skepticism abou...
Monday, September 09, 2013

Politico: David Barton’s Political Usefulness Trumps Scholarship For Evangelical Groups

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That's the title to Warren Throckmorton's story here . And here is the Politico article . A taste from Politico: Led by Warren Thr...
Sunday, September 08, 2013

Kraynak on The Founders' Moral Vision

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Watch the video below.