Bush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?
From the Transcendentalists to Alcoholics Anonymous, yoga and “the gospel of Oprah.”
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Yes, Virginia, There Were Cannibals
Life in the Jamestown colony, pious as colonists were, was more hell than heaven.
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Obama, MLK, Not “Nice” Enough to Moderates?
Last fall, Wall Street Journal editorialists such as Peggy Noonan and Karl Rove were full of confident predictions about the election. Rove had his polls, Noonan her “vibrations,” each telling them of the near surety of a Romney victory.
Read MoreThe Bible, Brought To You By Wal-Mart
Portrayals of the bible like this latest miniseries don’t just materialize out of thin air.
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U. of Colorado Appoints “Scholar of Conservative Thought”
The irony is that the hire seems a mirror-image mimicking of what conservatives typically allege of the university hiring process: that only liberals/radicals, regardless of scholarly accomplishment, need apply.
Read MoreHebrew Bible as Lord of the Rings
The Bible miniseries is more miniseries than Bible.
Read MoreHistory Channel’s The Bible Keeps Conservatives (Mostly) Happy and Jesus White
Welcome to the greatest story never sold.
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Great White Men, Again?: On Lincoln and Our Civil Religion
After the emotion evoked by the film subsides, sober consideration begins here: why, in the supposedly “post-racial” age of Obama, is there no space in movies to imagine the historical story of African Americans creating the conditions of their own emancipation?
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David Barton: Falling from Grace?
On Thursday, Barton’s publisher Thomas Nelson announced that it would pull from publication The Jefferson Lies. “In the course of our review,” the publisher said that it had “learned that there were some historical details included in the book that were not adequately supported,” and that “because of these deficiencies” it was “in the best interest of our readers to stop the publication and distribution” of the work.
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It’s Barack v. the Bible, Says Barton
David Barton’s post, “America’s Most Biblically-Hostile President,” details a theme that has become known to the public largely through the Gingrich/Santorum bloc: that Barack Obama has led the most actively anti-Christian administration in American history. But given Obama’s frequent Christian testimony—explicit enough to make most founding fathers uncomfortable with its public expression of private matters—how can this view be so widely held?
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