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America’s Greatest Explorer
On July 4, 1776, as several dozen sweating American colonists sat in the stuffy Pennsylvania State House wondering what would befall them for having dared to rebel against their...
Salute to a Country Songwriter
One morning, when I was six or seven years old, my mother told me that she would be substituting for my regular teacher at school that day. My heart...
Redeeming Places
Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today by craig g. bartholomew baker, 384 pages, $29.99 The ability to “escape from place” is profoundly entrenched in America’s...
