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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Historic Traditional Christianity and Dueling

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I mentioned this topic in my last post where I discussed Alexander Hamilton's death. As most readers know, I endorse the scholarly cons...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

AFA's Rusty Benson on "What Is a Christian?"

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See here . His answer: I Peter 1:23 – “having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God whic...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

The Bible Can Be Hard to Interpret

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Because often the principles deduced from it involve more than just one "proof text" but synthesizing a number of different texts...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Reason & Revelation (and Something Else)

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See this article by Hadley Arkes celebrating the life of Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. wherein he notes: But the deepest question for Fr. Sc...
Saturday, September 05, 2015

Trying to Make Sense of David Barton's Word Salad

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I'm going to try and do a more serious analysis of David Barton's observations of the Kim Davis issue. Below is my more glib anal...

The Kind of Religion/Christianity I Do Endorse

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My last post may have left the impression that I am a simple agnostic. I don't define myself that way; in fact, I have a hard time de...
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The Adventures of David Barton and Glenn Beck

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Wow, the two of them here look like they are on some kind of "caper." Secret agents with Barton riding in the back seat getting re...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Swedenborgs' Address to George Washington

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I've written many times before on George Washington's classic address to the Swedenborgs where he lets them know whatever rights the...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Julie Ingersoll's New Book

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John Fea has the information here . It's noteworthy in that it's being published by Oxford University Press. A taste: David Barton...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Two From Robert Tracy McKenzie on the Founders & Religion

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" Wheaton University Professor McKenzie is Chairman of the History Department ." Here is the first entitled " The Contradicti...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

RIP Paul Sigmund

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A good man gone. I can't say "too soon" because, at 85, he lived a long life. But he will be missed by many. I'm embarra...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Jonathan Den Hartog: "John Adams and 'The Religion of Democracy'"

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From JDH here . A taste: Since Penguin was kind enough to send me a review copy of Amy Kittelstrom's The Religion of Democracy , I th...
Sunday, August 09, 2015

Christians in Nagasaki

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On the 70th Anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, I learned something about the presence of Christians there . The article obviously has a...
Saturday, August 08, 2015

John Adams on Swedenborg and Wesley

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His words were , to put it mildly, unkind. A taste: I have just read a sketch of the life of Swedenborg, and a larger work in two huge ...
Sunday, August 02, 2015

The Two Quaker Hybrid American Founders

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Given that Quakers didn't believe in taking up arms it was difficult to be both a "Quaker" and a "Founder" (at least...
Friday, July 24, 2015

The God of Benevolence

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One of the claims made, among elsewhere, in Dr. Gregg Frazer's book is that the God of the American Founding (what he terms "theis...

Throckmorton on Carter

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See this post from Warren Throckmorton on Robert Carter III. It's from 2012 and written in the context of answering a claim by David Ba...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Stephen Klugewicz: "The Forgotten First Emancipator"

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Check it out here . A taste: After reading Andrew Levy’s  The First Emancipator , the story of Virginia aristocrat Robert Carter III (not...

John Hargrove's First (1802) Sermon

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Hat tip to Bill Fortenberry for finding and uploading Swedenborian John Hargrove's first sermon delivered to the President and Congress...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Swedenborg, the Ultimate "Cosmic" Theologian

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In the future look for me to say much more on Emanuel Swedenborg. When one learns about his ideas, one might be tempted to write him off as ...