Warren Throckmorton
Blog Theme: Civil Rights and Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill – Interview with Jeff Sharlet
Interview with author Jeff Sharlet In this interview, we discuss our shared recollections of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009, the Netflix documentary The Family, liberty of conscience, and evangelicals in relationship to Donald Trump. This is second in a series of interviews marking 15 years of blogging. I started blogging in July 2005. The first interview…
Read MoreLocal Man Survives Shopping Trip While Wearing Mask
Local Man Survives Shopping Trip While Wearing Mask GROVE CITY, PA – A local man went shopping for groceries late Wednesday night while wearing a cloth face covering in response to COVID-19 regulations. With his mask on, Warren Throckmorton, a professor at Grove City College, was able to secure numerous items during the 35 minute…
Read MoreV.P. Pence’s Visit to First Baptist Church in Dallas: How Not to Do Church During a Pandemic
Buzzfeed News is reporting this morning what I wanted to report last week but couldn’t verify: Prior to V.P. Mike Pence’s visit to First Baptist Church in Dallas on Sunday, there was an outbreak of COVID-19 among the church’s orchestra and choir. I had heard this from two twitter accounts but could not get primary…
Read MoreBlog Theme: Getting History Right – Interview with Michael Coulter
Fact checking David Barton was not my first history rodeo. With the help of then Grove City College history professor J.D. Wyneken, I fact checked anti-gay crusader Scott Lively’s book The Pink Swastika in June of 2009. Lively made an outrageous case that Hitler’s Nazi project was animated by homosexuals and that the Holocaust was…
Read MoreHappy Blog Anniversary to Me #15
Fifteen years ago tomorrow, I started this blog with these words: This is a test, nothing but a test. A test of your routine blogcasting network. I didn’t know what I was doing, but with the encouragement of a former pastor Byron Harvey, I launched into the wild world of blogging. I started out on the…
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