‘Been So Long Praying’: 4 Reasons Why I Observe Juneteenth
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“’My mother,’ Washington wrote, ‘…explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying but fearing that she would never live to see.’” - TGC
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“’My mother,’ Washington wrote, ‘…explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying but fearing that she would never live to see.’” - TGC
“for example, 82% of Black adults say they have heard the following racial conspiracy theory…Black people are more likely than White people to be incarcerated because prisons want to make money on the backs of Black people. Many Black adults (74%) say this racial conspiracy theory is true and happening in the U.S.
“To this day, it’s hard for any patriotic American not to get choked up when watching the speech, when Reagan says, ‘These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.’” - National Review
“Coffman’s book attempts the tall task of recounting centuries of history in just a few hundred pages. To do this, she elected to pick discrete, illustrative episodes from America’s Christian legacy to tell a broader story.” - Providence
“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
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