“If you are of a certain age, you knew exactly where you were that fateful day, 24 years ago. I was… working at a Christian ministry. The broadcast on a local Chicago talk show was interrupted by the news anchor, first with a low-key announcement that a ‘plane of some kind’ had hit one of the World Trade Center towers.” - World
“One hundred years ago this month, Americans were transfixed as a Tennessee courtroom hosted challenge to the state’s new law barring “the teaching of the Evolution Theory” in public schools, including colleges.” - Religion Unplugged
Also…
“One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.” - RNS
“Arguments started on July 10, 1925, at the Rhea County Courthouse. The trial may have begun as a determination of whether Scopes had violated the Butler Act, but both sides soon focused on debating the relative merits of biblical cosmology versus Darwinian theory.” - The Conversation
“These classic North-South divisions don’t explain, however, why Christians in the North were bitterly divided among themselves too. …. [the book] shows how these ‘warring religious nationalists’ shaped the North during the Civil War.” - TGC
“After denying that the 1886 pro-polygamy ‘Taylor revelation’ existed, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly published it on Saturday.” - RNS
“NPS recently garnered criticism from media and a U.S. senator when reports surfaced alleging that it edited a webpage about the Underground Railroad to remove a photo of Tubman and a quote of hers, as well as water down the references to racial slavery.” - CPost
“Religious liberty did not emerge from abstract speculation, but rather the concrete experience of Protestant republics in the Atlantic World.” - L&L
“Though a fascinating historical study undoubtedly unfamiliar to many readers, American Heretics fails to interpret properly the framers’ conception of religion and… ham-fistedly collapses into a single whole a diverse group of religious conservatives who often share little more than superficial commonalities.” - Acton
“’We must be doing something right to last 200 years.’ Can we say the same thing this year as we celebrate our 250th anniversary of the American Revolution’s start in 1775? … it’s worth thinking about what we have done right, what we’re doing wrong, and whether we can get back on track.” - Marvin Olasky
