How Christian Were the Founders? God and the Constitution After the Civil WarAn enduring point of controversy in church-state battles concerned the piety of the Founding Fathers and their vision of the public role of religion in their republic. In the decade after the Civil War, this issue ...
Members of the Women Christian Temperance Union attempt to recruit converts at a bar. Photo Peter Stackpole/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images The idea of rehabilitating addictive behavior has existed since the beginning of the early temperance movement in 19th-century America. This movement, which be...
For Aguilera, theStrippedera was all about getting a message across and freeing herself of the narratives and comparisons that were forced upon her. While the album was liberating for Aguilera herself, she wanted to make an impact on others who were dealing with...
Millions of people have viewed the YouTube video sensation, "Christian the Lion," which shows the touching 1972 reunion between a lion named Christian and his former owners. Christian's owners had raised him from a cub until he was about a year old, at which time a conservationist helped ...
Bassiani’s main room is an empty 50m Olympic sized swimming pool, a Soviet relic that had previously lain abandoned for the best part of a decade. The club’s three co-founders, Tato Getia, Zviad Gelbakhiani, and Naja Orashvili, opened the venue in 2012 after their previous warehouse ...
like the forbidden hope that America will end its experiment with democratic republicanism and replace it with an authoritarian Christian regime like Hungary’s, give rise to the same kinds of painful dissonances that irrational beliefs do. One way to manage the discomfort is to project ...
In 374 AD, the Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius the First went to church in Milan, Italy, where the pastor was Bishop Saint Ambrose. Imagine what it must have been like to be Saint Ambrose with the Emperor sitting in your chur...
Growing up as a Christian, there were kind of teachings like being successful is against the teachings of Jesus, and then you actually read the Bible and it’s full of like, no, ask and knock and receive. And, you know, like your desires are too small, like go all in....
The sinner will not convert the sinner. The ungodly man will not convert the ungodly man; and, what is more to the point, the worldly Christian will not convert the world. If you are of the world, no doubt the world will love its own; but you cannot save the world. If you are ...
My best friend was my first employee, then my brother. They were helping me before that, but they weren't able to come full time because BOXRAW wasn't making enough money. Isaac, my brother, needed to carry on running the car sales business and feeding the money into BOXRAW. It was ...