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No surprise that 32% of Americans want a Christian constitutional amendment
According to this Huffington Post/YouGov poll, 32 percent of Americans would favor a Constitutional amendment that would make Christianity the official religion of the United States. 42 percent oppose...
North Carolina Republicans Want to Create a Christian Establishment
The framers of the North Carolina Constitution of 1776 made it abundantly clear as to what kind of people they wanted to serve in their new state government. Article...
North Carolina Republicans Want to Create a Christian Establishment
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Is Liberty University Going Liberal?
Some of you may remember Kevin Roose . In 2007, as a student at Brown University, he went undercover for a semester at Liberty University and reflected on his...
Bonnet Rippers: Valerie Weaver-Zercher on the Amish Romance Novel
Check out Valerie Weaver-Zercher ’s great piece on Amish romance novels at LA Review of Books . Weaver-Zercher is the author of Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish...
Historians Criticize History Channel’s “The Bible”
My family and I raced home from a volleyball tournament in Philadelphia last night in order to catch the latest episode of The Bible on the History Channel. (Unfortunately...
Are Evangelical Homeschoolers Embracing Evolution?
According to David Wheeler, author of a recent post at the Atlantic , more and more Evangelical homeschooling parents want their children exposed to evolution. At least one publisher—-...
David Barton, Louis L’Amour, and the Use of Historical Evidence
The rumors are true. David Barton’s story about children with guns in a nineteenth-century classroom came from Bendigo Shafter , a Louis L’Amour novel. Readers of my blog The...