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Restoring the Chaplain Corps’ Moral Backbone
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that he is revamping the U.S. military’s chaplain corps as part of his broader reform efforts, and he’s taking aim at what he...
The Last Twentieth-Century Film
About halfway through Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise’s eponymous Pete “Maverick” Mitchell has a romantic encounter with a former flame, Penny Benjamin, played by Jennifer Connelly. They realize that...
Evangelicals and Whig History
In the late eighteenth century, many American Protestants saw the War for Independence and the freedoms delineated in the Declaration and Constitution as part of a global revolution that...
The History of National Flags in Churches
This summer, Christianity Today ran an article about Protestant pastors’ views on displaying national flags in sanctuaries and on church property. Many American evangelicals, especially white-collar evangelicals, increasingly view...
America’s Search for Social Utopia
The New York City Council has voted to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson from the council chambers at City Hall. A group of iconoclastic lawmakers argued that the...
