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The Father of Psychiatry, Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), signed the Declaration of Independence and was a delegate to the Constitutional Congress. Rush was good friends with both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Despite his universalist beliefs, he is a favorite of David Barton and other Christian Nationalists because he was a…
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Ruth Moon writing for Relevant Magazine interviews Jennifer McKinney, Gerry Breshears, Samuel Rodriguez, Francis Chan, Kate Bowler, and William Vanderbloemen to seek answers to her question. Seems like it all comes down to celebrity and business. Don’t worship the pastor and don’t make church a business. While those are two…
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Former Mars Hill Church spokesperson offers advice to churches on how to handle the press in his new gig with Ministry Communications Association. He certainly has had experience doing so and it appears he has taken some valuable observations away from his time at Mars Hill. When I read this…
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Earlier this month, David Barton told the audience (at about 5:20 – 6:30) at Charis Bible College his college basketball team set an NCAA scoring record. Watch: Barton said: I remember when I was playing basketball, the college stuff that we did. We started every day with a five mile run,…
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Who made the potentially illegal robocalls? Watch this investigative report by WUSA: Another interesting aspect of this report is Michael Peroutka’s spokesperson: Peter Waldron. “Councilman Peroutka’s policy is not to comment on ongoing investigations,” said Peroutka spokesman Peter Waldron in an email to WUSA9. Could this be the same Peter…
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In an email to supporters last week, David Barton said that his historical claims had been vindicated by winning a defamation lawsuit. Barton wrote: The more publicized of the two defamation lawsuits we won was the one where David was labeled an anti-Semite, racist, and white supremacist. But the second…
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As I reported recently, the League of the South president Michael Hill announced their plan to celebrate the life of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. Plans are apparently coming together for an April celebration in Maryland. According to Hunter Wallace: We’ve been getting a lot of publicity from the media…
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Today on a segment of the Glenn Beck Show*, David Barton was asked if Salon was correct that Thomas Jefferson owned a Quran 16 years before he wrote the Declaration of Independence or is what Glenn Beck always heard (from Barton actually) true that Jefferson got a Quran after he…
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Since at least mid-2013, David Barton has been telling church audiences that violent crime has gone up 694% since the Supreme Court ruled on prayer and Bible reading in public schools. I wrote first about this in 2013, and then again last year. Recently at First Baptist Church in Eastland…
