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No surprise that 32% of Americans want a Christian constitutional amendment
According to thisย Huffington Post/YouGov ย 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 theย North Carolina Constitution of 1776 ย 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 rememberย Kevin Roose . In 2007, as a student at Brown University, he went undercover for a semester atย Liberty University ย and reflected on his...
Bonnet Rippers: Valerie Weaver-Zercher on the Amish Romance Novel
Check outย Valerie Weaver-Zercher ’s great piece on Amish romance novelsย at LA Review of Books .ย Weaver-Zercher is the author ofย Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish...
Historians Criticize History Channelโs โThe Bibleโ
My family and I raced home from a volleyball tournament in Philadelphia last night in order to catch the latest episode ofย The Bible ย on the History Channel. (Unfortunately...
Are Evangelical Homeschoolers Embracing Evolution?
According to David Wheeler, author of aย recent post at the Atlantic , more and more Evangelical homeschooling parents want their children exposed to evolution. At least one publisherโ-...
David Barton, Louis LโAmour, and the Use of Historical Evidence
The rumors are true. David Barton’s story about children with guns in a nineteenth-century classroom came fromย Bendigo Shafter , a Louis L’Amour novel. Readers of my blogย The...