We forget much when we forget the Holocaust
A recent survey shows that many Americans either never learned or have forgotten much about the Holocaust. Many Americans don’t know the full extent of the government slaughter, or they cannot say what Auschwitz was, or they don’t know that Hitler...
Sunday Theology Funday: The Bible, Machiavelli, & glory
If the Bible suggests that glory and might, power and right, can all be the same thing at the same time, Machiavelli surely agrees.
BEFORE HALLOWEEN: HALLOWED SAMHAIN
Ancient practices that later became Halloween often focused on two phenomena that dominated life in any ancient culture: The changing of the seasons and the ancestral dead.
Sunday Theology Funday: Floods, curses, slavery, & race
Floods, curses, slavery, and race.
POST-CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICS OF DEMAGOGUERY
We are now in the post-Constitutional politics of demagoguery guided by little other than which political celebrity of the moment we happen to like.