Tag: religion
This is the grave of Lyman Beecher. Lyman Beecher was born in New Haven in 1775 and quickly became a rising star in the New England religious world as a young man. He attended Yale and and graduated i
For your evening reading, check out this Sam Haselby discussion of the United States as a secularist nation, including understanding its Protestant intellectual origins, the heresy of men like Thomas

Above: The U.S. Army marching on Utah, 1858 I know that modern Mormonism is in no small part an exercise in trying to fit into the broad spectrum of mainstream Christianity, but you’d think a Mo
Support for Israel on the right has many strands that have increasingly come together–U.S. geopolitical interests for some, Israelis seen as an island of whites in a sea of scary Arabs for other
I just watched Marjoe, the 1972 documentary about an ex-child preacher turned hippie who supported himself by going back out on the preacher circuit even though he believed none of it. It’s pret
I’m sure the KGB would like to take credit for liberation theology, planning the world’s rebellions against capitalist exploitation from the Kremlin, but no one should take the claim of an

Welp, this exists. From 1555. I’m not sure, but I’m guessing this is a Protestant attack upon nuns. Time period certainly fits. As much as I hesitate to ever link to Reddit, there are peop
While I appreciate Duke University’s initial agreement to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer once a week, its quickly succumbing to the racist blatherings of Franklin Graham and the anti-Islam
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,180
- Sore loser parents try to mobilize Republican genital inspection commissions
- LGM Film Club, Part 279: Kenmare Fair, 1967
- Republicans perform triage on their shitty Senate candidates
- Inventing libs to be mad at
- People really hate Dobbs
- Republican signal. Republican noise.
- “Towards the rotating knives”
- Zaporizhzhia Again
- A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place