William Penn Statue Saved...for Now
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“After a great outcry against this attempted purging of an aspect of our American history, the park service relented” - Real Clear Religion
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“After a great outcry against this attempted purging of an aspect of our American history, the park service relented” - Real Clear Religion
“Years later, after I had come to Christ and was by then reading every book by C. S. Lewis I could find, I discovered that Lewis had died the same day as Kennedy.” - Randy Alcorn
“Sixty years later, their sermons calling for change and greater civility still resonate.” - CToday
“Mark Noll surveys the effects of an ‘independence-first’ approach to Scripture.” - CToday
“imagine my surprise when I opened Princeton historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer’s new edited volume on contemporary historical myths and found no essay—not a single one!—that challenged myths that came from the left.” - Hedgehog Review
Editor’s note: The full title of the speech below is “An oration, pronounced at Hanover, New-Hampshire, the 4th day of July, 1800; being the twenty-fourth anniversary of American independence.” The speaker is Daniel Webster, who was then a junior at the University of Dartmouth.
AN ORATION.
COUNTRYMEN, BRETHREN, AND FATHERS,
1970s… “As the phrase grew in the public consciousness, many Americans assumed that born-again Christianity was a new Christian sect.” - Desiring God
“I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that I’m the only person in the world who reads through back issues of the Ann Arbor Baptist, a periodical from the late 1800s. But periodicals like that were the blogs of their era and within their pages I find such interesting articles and poems.” - Challies
“Emphasizing what the WCTU called ‘organized mother love’ — the belief that women could apply the ideals of motherhood to the social issues of the time — Willard built the WCTU into one of the largest women’s organizations in the world.” - RNS
“Forty years ago, President Ronald Reagan shocked many in the West by labeling the Soviet Union an ‘evil empire’ and the ‘focus of evil in the modern world.’” - Providence
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