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Why I Am Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’

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  • Religion
February 26, 2024February 29, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I was the old style of Religious Right, and I make no apologies, but I don’t consider myself to be a Christian Nationalist.  This is, however, a distinction that is probably too subtle for the media to understand.  I am […]

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Timothy Snyder on the History Behind the Ukraine War

  • Culture,
  • Politics
January 9, 2023January 9, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In his book, The Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder intends to warn us about the threats to ‘freedom’ in America, Europe, and Russia.  He reminds us that the war really started on February 24, 2014, not on February 24, 2022!  […]

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Give Us Barabbas

  • Politics,
  • Religion
May 23, 2022February 28, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In exchanging Jesus for Barabbas, the people chose a practical terrorist over The One who did not seem likely to fulfill their political dreams any time soon. The big news in Jerusalem the night of that first long-ago Good Friday, […]

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Catholic ‘Integralism’ Reminds Me of Protestant ‘Reconstructionism’

  • Religion
March 31, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Ever since Sohrab Ahmari’s attack on ‘David French-ism’ [May 2019] there has been a revival of interest in the blogosphere on the subject of Catholic Integralism.  The interesting fact is that thirty years ago I was rather involved in something called […]

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What Christian Reconstruction Gave Me

  • Religion
August 14, 2018November 4, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As everyone who investigates me online knows, in my 30s I was a Christian Reconstructionist.  Part of the appeal of that to younger people in that era was the specific blueprints for society and personal action that seemed to fill […]

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The Politics, or a-Politics, of the Evangelical Church in the 1970s

  • Politics
July 19, 2018March 31, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I came to Christ in 1973, at the high tide of the Jesus movement.  No, we weren’t all hippies; the movement swept through secular colleges [even fraternities!] and youth groups as well.  It is worth pointing out that my [deservedly […]

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A Manifesto:  Important Events That Shaped My Political Views – Howard Ahmanson

  • Politics
October 10, 2016May 8, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

As I reflect upon the beginnings of my present political views, I believe that three specific events shaped my way of thinking. The first was my conversion to Christianity. The second was my introduction to ‘Reconstructionism’ and my subsequent move […]

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The Surprising Fruit of 9/11

  • Culture,
  • Religion
September 11, 2009August 30, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Today is the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York City. In the U.S., the event seemed to me to have an effect on the results of the 2004 election, but by the time of the 2008 election […]

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