June 26, 2023
A Hope for the Future
With his dying words, Founding Father John Adams expressed hope for the future. . . .
Articles for tag: American History
October 11, 2016
Real Patriots
By Mark A. Taylor Why devote so many pages, words, and ink to a question that can be answered with just one word? Can a Christian be a patriot? Yes! With two more words, let us be clear: of course! Readers of articles this month should not see any anti-Americanism here. But these articles offer a plea for us to put our patriotism in perspective: To thank God for America without assuming America is at the center of his will for the world. To ask God to bless America without believing that America”s interests are always God”s purposes. To respect
March 14, 2010
FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Politics, Commerce, and Religion: All About Us and Them
By LeRoy Lawson Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2009). James A. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004). David Domke and Kevin Coe, The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007). Love of country can be beautiful. I remember returning from my first extended trip to Europe. When we landed I almost kissed the ground, I was so glad to be home again. I”ve since had that experience over and over. I”m proud to be
January 13, 2008
FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Not Your High School”s History
By LeRoy Lawson The problem with history is that it doesn”t sit still. The older I grow the more it changes. Many of my public school history lessons have flunked the tests of time. If you want to retain confidence in your high school grasp of the past, this one thing you must do: Stop reading. Or at least stop reading history. The Rest of the Story Here is the first book to put on your list of books not to read: James W. Loewen”s Lies My Teacher Told Me (Touchstone, 1996). As you can tell from the date, I
