OK, many do. Maybe most! But not all and that's very important. A lot of people actually do live their Christian values and while Trump doesn't give a shit about Christians appealing to him to be a decent human being, which he is as incapable...
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This is the grave of Sam Jones. Born in 1847 in Oak Bowery, Alabama, Jones grew up fairly well off, the son of a lawyer and businessman. His mom died.
This is the church that holds the grave of George Whitefield. Born in 1714 in Gloucester, England, Whitefield lost his father at the age of two. His parents owned an.
I never cared about pieties around personal behavior and we have known forever that evangelicals are mostly gigantic hypocrites when it comes to personal behavior. Like many of us, I wondered how these people could stomach Donald Trump, since at least I kind of sort...
This is the grave of Borden Bowne. Born in 1847 near Leonardville, New Jersey, Bowne grew up in a Methodist, reformist family. His father was a preacher and an abolitionist.
OK, this made me chuckle. An attempt by Idaho Republicans to repeal the state’s Blaine Amendment—a move that would allow taxpayer money to flow to churches and faith-based ministries across the.
This is the grave of Phillips Brooks. Born in 1835 in Boston, Brooks was a man of Boston. Good family that had been there forever, great-grandson of the founder of Phillips Academy. Brooks went to Boston Latin and then Harvard. He taught for awhile upon...
This is the grave of Margaret and Catherine Fox. Margaretta Fox was born in Rochester in 1833 and Catherine, or Kate as she was known, was born in that city.
The thing about religious fanaticism (well one of many things) is that can be a very easy excuse for labor exploitation. If you don't work 16 hours a day for.
This is the grave of James Freeman Clarke. Born in 1810 in Hanover, New Hampshire, Clarke came out of the elite religious families of Puritan New England, with ancestors that went back forever and many relatives being leading religious figures in the Early Republic. In...
A Vegas-themed He Gets Us campaign advertisement at Harmon Corner in Las Vegas. Photo courtesy of He Gets Us When watching the Super Bowl and other big televised events, you've.
Aimee Semple McPherson's Angelus Temple, completed in 1923