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Today is the last in the series of articles by historians posted during Thanksgiving week. I deeply appreciated the contributions of my distinguished friends and colleagues John Wilsey, Jared Burkholder, Barry Hankins, Andrew Mitchell, Fred Beuttler, and today Gary Scott Smith. Happy Thanksgiving! ……………………………. Dr. Gary Scott Smith formerly chaired the history department at…
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The third post today is a brief note from Barry Hankins. Hankins is Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History and Resident Scholar, Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. Christians can celebrate Thanksgiving by infusing it with all kinds of religious and national significance. …
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Today’s second guest post is from friend and Grove City College colleague Andrew Mitchell who is an associate professor of history at the college. Reclaim the Spirit of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving is one of only two holidays Americans celebrate that consciously looks back to a colonial past. It also happens to…
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Today’s first guest post is from John D. Wilsey. Wilsey is Associate Professor of Church History at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of One Nation Under God: An Evangelical Critique of Christian America and American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea. One of…
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Today’s guest post is by Fred W. Beuttler, Ph.D., the former Deputy Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives. Fred is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts Programs at University of Chicago, Graham School. The First Federal Thanksgiving Today, November 26, 2019, marks the 230th anniversary of the first Federal Thanksgiving…
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On the November 21 edition of the Eric Metaxas Show, Metaxas interviewed Franklin Graham and the two literally demonized Trump’s opponents. Watch: Franklin Graham calls anyone opposed to Trump “demonic” pic.twitter.com/8RGywx46GE — Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) November 21, 2019 Graham first suggested an “almost demonic power” is behind opposition to Donald…
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In 2014, I asked several historian colleagues to opine about what the public should know about Thanksgiving. Five years later, they are still good words to us. The series will run through at least Thanksgiving Day. Today, Jared Burkholder briefly discusses the political aspects of the first thanksgiving. …………………… Jared S.…
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I don’t know any other way to describe the report written by Sally Wagenmaker about the financial and governance practices of Harvest Bible Chapel during the tenure of former pastor James MacDonald. MacDonald recently defended himself against the church action of declaring him disqualified as a pastor. He may have…
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In CEO and founder K.P. Yohannan’s recent “exclusive personal response” to the fraud lawsuit settlement involving Gospel for Asia, Yohannan traces GFA’s problems to a 2015 “confidential letter from a financial standards association we were part of, and of which we were a charter member.” That letter was from the…
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In CEO and founder K.P. Yohannan’s recent “exclusive personal response” to the fraud lawsuit settlement involving Gospel for Asia, Yohannan traces GFA’s problems to a 2015 “confidential letter from a financial standards association we were part of, and of which we were a charter member.” That letter was from the…
