Thursday, January 28, 2021

My Ancestry and the Bane of "Christian Nationalism," Part 2: "Christian" America as Indicative?

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In my last  post  I looked at my ancestry―in particular, to my dad's Northern Irish immigrant family and, on my mom's side, to my 7t...
Sunday, January 24, 2021

My Ancestry and the Bane of "Christian Nationalism," Part 1

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One hundred years ago today,  my grandmother Sarah, my Uncle Willie, and Aunts Maria and Isabell arrived at Ellis Island on the SS Carmania ...
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Friday, January 22, 2021

R.I.P., Hammerin' Hank

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       (AP Photo) The death last night of the great Henry Louis Aaron, the REAL home run king, was both sad and sobering. When I was a kid i...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Gospel for the Whole Person

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  Statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Other 20th Century Martyrs above the West Door of Westminster Abbey, London (photo: Montrealais; com...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Evangelicalism, R.I.P.

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Back in 1988, in the wake of  televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's fall from grace due to his hiring of a prostitute--itself coming on the hee...
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Saturday, January 9, 2021

The Confederate Battle Flag in the U.S. Capitol

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Over at  The Atlantic , Clint Smith reflects on the image of a man carrying the Confederate Battle flag in the halls of the United States Ca...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Christians and Sedition: Reflections on Yesterday's Insurrection at the United States Capitol

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  (photo credit: Hamil Harris; image @https://religionunplugged.com/news/2021/1/6/some-history-behind-the-christian-flags-at-the-pro-trump-c...