Category: American History

When I was in the eleventh grade, the KKK held a parade, and I watched as it went by. This was 1987, and the town was Texarkana. There

In our stories, Dr. King is good, Malcolm X is bad. Dr. King was a Christian. Malcolm X was a Muslim.Dr. King promoted nonviolence. Malcolm X promoted violence.Dr.

One of the most compelling images I have seen floating around the internet recently has been the one above. Christian friends, we need to talk. The building on

The civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s didn’t arise out of nothing. It wasn’t merely a reaction to the realities of segregation and racism in those

The backside of the Confederate monument at the North Carolina capital building in Raleigh, NC. I have spent much of the past month preparing to move from Raleigh,

I had many good intentions beginning this post. I had hoped to give a brief reflection on a trip I took this past week, a trip that involved

Several years ago I wrote an article on how Christians were to relate to the Government namely with regards to subjection to authority. Today’s post is a re0working

  When I get up in the morning and see the same not-new news. I don’t know how to continue running this website that’s supposed to help. Make sense

This might not be the methodology taught in Blogging 101, but I’m going to lead with the punchline: I won’t quote Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. because I

The concept of the separation of church and state is as old as America.  Roger Williams talked about it in the early 1600s, Thomas Jefferson in the early