Luther’s point was that, according to Scripture, salvation is not a bake sale:
Mutual Criticism required a member of the group to stand up in front of everybody and listen to the enumeration of his or her faults. The bright side of being that night’s subject for criticism was th...
Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol, he points out. What's...
One night, he left Stephen and me in the arcade and rushed off to a – this hurt my feelings – real game. That night, he missed a foul shot by two feet and made the mistake of admitting to the other pl...
The doo-wop stalker love song on a Cincinnati oldies station--you broke up with me because I was an obnoxious jerk and now you're dating him, so I drive by your house and stare in your window every ni...
This is a sappy way to put it, but the Winthrop who warns Williams is the Winthrop I fell in love with, the Winthrop Cotton Mather celebrates for sharing his firewood with the needy, the Winthrop who...
Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
On the illusive Monsieur Hortalez. When my friend Steven and I went looking for the building one afternoon, we came to the address at 47 rue Vieille-du-Temple and realized we had been there before.
The amateur historian’s next stop after Boy, people used to be so stupid is People: still stupid.
I soon figured out that I should keep my qualms to myself. Christianity is no different from any other cult---it isn't about faith. It's about agreement, about like-minded people sitting together in t...
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that.
After Dickinson and Adams had it out over the Olive Branch Petition, Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that he and Dickinson are not to be on speaking terms. How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheer...
But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual...
Chevalier d’Éon de Beaumont, had previously served France as both a male soldier in the Seven Years’ War and a female secret agent who infiltrated the Russian monarchy, successfully befriending and co...
For years they’ve grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is their cute nickname for the pope.
He spent part of last year working in Canada, and I think it rubbed off on him, diminishing his innate American ability to celebrate the civic virtue of idiocy.
I ask about the Quakers’ silent services. She describes them as not so much the absence of talking as the presence of god. Interesting. Hers is a more poetic, more profound description than what I cal...
Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the tim...
Considering Independence Hall was also where the founders calculated that a slave equals three-fifths of a person and cooked up an electoral college that lets Florida and Ohio pick our presidents, mak...
Cotton says, If God be the gardener, who shall pluck up what he sets down? Hear that, Indians? No weeding of the white people allowed. Unless they’re Catholic. Or one of those Satan-worshipping Virgin...
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