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Today, Religion Dispatches published a review of Getting Jefferson Right by history professor Paul Harvey. Harvey is also blogmeister at Religion in American History blog. While Harvey is skeptical that our book will change many minds of those committed to Barton’s faux history, I see it differently. I am encouraged…
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I have written a headline like that several times since 2009. However, in 2012, the calls still come: In a statement, the bishops called for the review of the Constitution to reduce the excessive powers enjoyed by the President. Orombi said there is need to enact a law to protect…
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I will be on the Pittsburgh station, WORD-FM at 5:10pm to discuss The Jefferson Lies and Getting Jefferson Right. You can listen live by clicking the player at the top of the page… Have you gotten your copy of Getting Jefferson Right yet?
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Being all into American history lately, I have missed some things. Like the Family Research Council giving an award to a guy who loves to hear himself vilify those he claims to love. Well, actually I don’t know if he has claimed to love gays or not. Exodus, sounding a…
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Yowari Museveni will apparently not provoke a Constitutional crisis and remain in office after age 75 but he is backing his wife as the NRM standard bearer when he retires. This according to the East African: Apparently, First Lady Janet Kataaha Museveni has emerged as the preferred successor to the…
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Bill Leonard is James and Marilyn Dunn Professor of Church History and Baptist Studies at the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University. In a column yesterday, titled Baptist Shame, Leonard spoke out in condemnation against Charles Worley’s remarks about gay concentration camps. He begins: Tonight I am ashamed to be…
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Harping, harping, harping. It’s about the homosexuals… Those who say the pastor should be ignored need to think through the thinking process of this woman who sits in the pew. Maybe this way of thinking is specific to Pastor Worley and this woman but I kind of doubt it. I…
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In a press release yesterday, Exodus International continued to articulate their new direction. In the release, a brief comment is made about Charles Worley, the NC preacher who called for gay concentration camps. Alan Chambers, president of the 36-year-old Exodus International said, “As usual, the spotlight is shining on the furthest extremes…
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This is disgusting. By now, you may have seen it all over the media (e.g., here). Charles Worley, “pastor” of the Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, NC called for a concentration camp for gays and lesbians. Worley said: I figured a way out, a way to get rid of…
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Salon today posted my article on David Barton and a brief look at the falsehoods in Barton’s book, The Jefferson Lies. One claim I haven’t spent much time on until lately is Barton’s claim that Thomas Jefferson could not emancipate his slaves due to restrictions in VA law. Barton says…
