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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Here we are in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic and Donald Trump is going to have another indoor rally, this time in a church. If you get sick, you can’t blame anybody but yourself. In fact, as with the rally in Tulsa, you have to sign a waiver to…
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This is a reprint of a post I began in 2018 with an amendment or two. Happy day to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S. Juneteenth is a holiday in 47 states. Here is a tweet from Jamar Tisby which makes a case for Juneteenth as a national…
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In a June 14th videotaped conversation involving music artist Lecrae, pastor Louis Giglio, and Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy, Louis Giglio said the following We understand the curse that was slavery, white people do, and we say that was bad, but we miss the blessing of slavery that it actually built…
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Even though publishers infrequently acknowledge plagiarism in their books, some readers want to know which authors borrow from others and which authors do their own work. Hence, I continue to bring plagiarism news to light. This is an easy post for me to write because I am citing other people.…
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I just saw this a short while ago. Announcement: I have entered my name into the Transfer Portal and will no longer be attending Liberty University ?? pic.twitter.com/LwESGkjwNs — Asia Todd???? (@hoopersgalore_) June 11, 2020 Asia Todd was a high school standout at Clayton (NC) High School and played quality…
