Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen
Now I know why Jr. High, High School and college freshmen American History classes were so boring and how the Viet Nam War started and why The Pilgrim Fathers is capitalized.
Now I know why Jr. High, High School and college freshmen American History classes were so boring and how the Viet Nam War started and why The Pilgrim Fathers is capitalized.
Is God that which represents the “highest aspirations of the human consciousness”? In his short article, Utilitarian Christianity, H. Richard Niebuhr explores the difference between “those who are anxious for their lives, for food and drink, for freedom from want and fear” and those who have found the “secret of the kingdom of God.” Georg [...]
King James called for the Hampton Court Conference (1604) for “the statement and discussion of the divergent views of rival parties in the Church of England.”[1] The King James Bible is a by product of that meeting. He objected to the Geneva Bible as “very partiall, untrue, seditious, and savouring too much of dangerous and [...]
Jon Meacham’s book is an historical narrative of the “establishment” and “free exercise” clauses of the first amendment in American history. Meacham articulates the unique success of our American experience: framing a secular constitution for a religious nation, Christian, Deist, Jewish and including atheism and unintentionally anticipating immigrants of other faiths.