A college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues
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 became ambassador to Tripoli because … Continue reading “David Barton Smooths Over His Errors about Thomas Jefferson's Quran”
David Barton was on Calvary Chapel pastor Jack Hibbs’ show Real Life with Jack Hibbs last night. Part one is available on You Tube with apparently more to come. They didn’t get into much until near the end of this segment. At about 22 minutes into the video, Barton accuses others of using history to … Continue reading “David Barton on Real Life with Jack Hibbs: Did the University of Virginia Have Chaplains?”
It is surprising to me that Eric Metaxas appeared today on Wallbuilders Live. Rick Green, Tim Barton, and David Barton spent the first few minutes laughing off Barton’s use of Metaxas’ article without attribution on January 23. On the broadcast today, after tearing down my faith, Tim Barton said at 3:28 into the broadcast that … Continue reading “David Barton Denies Plagiarism; Eric Metaxas Appears on Wallbuilders Live”
In 2012, the National Religious Broadcasters Network aired the Institute on the Constitution’s 12 part course on the Constitution. The NRB took some heat over that choice, including the threat of a boycott from a group of pastors in the Cincinnati Ohio area. The same group of pastors threatened a boycott of publisher Thomas Nelson … Continue reading “National Religious Broadcasters Network Again Broadcasts Controversial Institute on the Constitution Course”
In August 2012, Thomas Nelson (now part of Harper Collins Christian) pulled David Barton‘s book The Jefferson Lies from publication. This rare move by Thomas Nelson took place in the midst of efforts by several people to confront Barton with his errors. While I cannot tell the whole story (in part because I don’t know … Continue reading “The Great Confrontation of 2012: David Barton and the Evangelical Historians”