World War II ended seven decades ago. Today is the anniversary of Germany’s surrender. So what does it mean to us all these years later?
Category: American History
What did Martin Luther King mean in his sermons on having the Strength to Love?
Reflections on Ferguson, sexism, 9-11 and a life lived in fear.
Combining 3 famous American traditions–Thanksgiving, football, and the Macy’s parade.
Is some traditional Thanksgiving food overrated? You decide.
Daylight Saving Time. It’s baaaaaaack!
JR.’s paper from the Baylor IFL Faith and Film festival. Using Scott Poole’s Monsters in America methodology to examine two Scott Derickson films, JR. argues that possession films offer the Church a unique window into American culture.
I enjoy watching these two talk through this question… they clearly disagree but manage to talk about it with mutual respect for one another and being honest with each other. What do you think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KBFuobhDk
A new series from the masterful Ken Burns highlights the lives of 3 Americans who defined our world.
I’ve got a new science fiction short story which came out this week in Nature Futures… a part of the well-renowned weekly international science journal, Nature. It’s a story about hope, compassion, history and historians. It’s a commentary, in it’s way, about how time travel stories (and, to some extent, history books and papers) are […]