So I had an idea that I suggested to two of my classes. I wanted my students to look up the definitions of 3 historical terms. I told each class I was going to have a volunteer come up and stand with me. Then I was going to have the students guess what the historical […]
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Would Jesus be a liberal or a conservative? Would it be arrogant of me to presume I know? Maybe I’ll just ask the questions. Would Jesus have the compassion of a liberal or expect the accountability of a conservative? Would He be characterized by both qualities? Would Jesus demand His First Amendment right to engage
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Several years ago, and before I was married, I was living in an apartment complex in Kentucky. One day, two white-shirt wearing individuals approached me in my parking lot, and one of them said something like, “Hello. May I ask you a question? Do you find yourself thinking about God a lot in these troubled
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Twelve years ago, early in the morning on 9/11/2001, I was driving to work as a history professor at Morehead State University in Kentucky. I was preparing for my academic experience as I usually did–listening to sports radio. That’s what I was doing when I learned about the first terrorist attack. Over the next few
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What should President Obama do with Syria? Well, there’s a conundrum. When George W. Bush ordered the Iraq invasion in 2003, he rationalized it several different ways. Saddam Hussein was hiding Weapons of Mass Destruction; he had defied numerous United Nations resolutions regarding these WMDs; he was an evil dictator who had poison gassed his
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