A Happy Incarnation, Jesus’ Birthday, and Solstice to all my readers. And a more prosperous New Year than, for most of us, the last one.
– Howard Ahmanson
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On Baptists: Some Thoughts
Even though I am not a Baptist, Baptists remind us that we must all claim Jesus Christ for ourselves. But the tendency to base salvation on one’s ‘conversion experience’ has its limits. It focuses on one’s past life, rather than […]
If You Don’t Like Evangelicals, Don’t Blame the South
The South may be the one part of the country where ‘evangelicals’ actually have some cultural dominance. But ‘evangelicalism’ has had its power centers all around the country. This is especially so in the Philadelphia-Princeton belt, the halo around Lake […]
The Fall and Rise of the Cigar, and the Two Gilded Ages
During the mid-20th century the image of the cigar was a rather tacky one. Its high class image flourished in the First Gilded Age, 1865-1917, and again in the Second Gilded Age, approximately 1975 to the present day. In the […]