My grandfather, Walker Winfield Scott, was a tall, lanky Irishman. I always thought there was something special about hanging out with a man who shared my first name. He and my grandmother lived on a small farm outside of Miami,...
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Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith believes all modern American presidents eventually...
Read MoreI have a confession to make: I once belonged to a singing group. I don’t imagine you’ve ever heard of “The Young Testimonies.” Not many people have. Our 1960s-era youth culture was divided into two segments: those who belonged...
Read MoreIn 2006, Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia joined other members of the United States House of Representatives as they worked for the passage of a bill that would allow the Ten Commandments to be hung in the...
Read MoreWhat do the gay people in your church look like? Do you spot them by their flamboyant clothing, their mannerisms, their declarations? When a brother or sister in your church came to you to ask you for your help and support in...
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by Douglas E. Baker and Casey S. Shutt In 1976 when evangelicals dominated the political scene,...
Read MoreWriting in the Harvard Law Review in the spring of 1897, Oliver Wendell Holmes admitted that the law “was the witness and external deposit of our moral life.” Holmes realized morality could exist without law, but law could not...
Read MoreWhen Joshua Micah Marshall was a junior editor at The American Prospect, he had become accustomed to the routine of give and take which any news organization experiences with the rush of deadlines and time demands of good...
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Some people put feet to their prayers. Mary Ross added a kidney to hers. Ross, a member of a...
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