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The Right (to suppress) The Vote!

The American Historian, Heather Cox Richardson, makes history come alive so that it pokes its head right up into our current political...

Pruning the American Church With the Help of Beth Moore

I admire Beth Moore's courage this week as she parted ways with her church denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, "citing the...

Democracy Under Siege

Heather Cox Richardson wrote a cogent blog about how Democracy is Under Siege Around the World. Writing two days ago (Feb. 19, 2021), she...

How Extreme Partisan News Degrades My Attitude

It’s been several weeks since I’ve pulled up CNN on my tablet for my breakfast of morning news--until this morning. I quickly remembered...

DEMOCRACY REPORT 2020: Executive Summary

DEMOCRACY REPORT 2020 Produced by V-DEM INSTITUTE (Varieties of Democracy), based at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Executive Summary...

The Fire Next Time

Review and Excerpts The fire Next Time, by James Baldwin 1993, Paperback, Vintage, 106 pages "A national bestseller when it first...

ARE YOU ONE OF US OR ONE OF THEM?

In his chapters, “Your Brain on Groups” and “The Press Secretary in Your Mind,” Ezra Klein sets out in his book, Why We're Polarized, to...

Why It’s Difficult to Have a Reasonable Conversation with Certain "Trumpers"

October 22, 2020 Patrick Kahnke, in his recent book, MAGA Seduction, helped me understand my frustration when trying to have a reasonable...

Did you Board the Wrong (political) Train?

I just stared reading MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, by Patrick Kahnke. Pat is a local St. Paul...

A Conservative Evangelical's Resistance to Trumpism and What's At Stake

I just ordered the book, MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, by Patrick Kahnke. Pat was a pastor in St....

1934 Germany All Over Again

The following Forward to Patrick Kahnke's recent book, MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience, was written...

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