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Jesus Revolution (2023)
Directed by Jon Erwin & Brent McCorkle
Starring Kelsey Grammer, Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, & Anna Grace Barlow
Written by Ellen Vaughn, Greg Laurie, & Jon Gunn
The story in the Book of Acts is unique in that the events described therein have been recreated across many ages, in states that were unborn and accents unknown at the time it was written. (more…)
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Liz Collin
They’re Lying: The Media, The Left, and The Death of George Floyd
Paper Birch Publishing, 2022
The Fall of Minneapolis (2023)
Directed by J. C. Chaix (more…)
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Paul W. Callahan
When Democracy Fell: The Subjugation of Maryland During the U.S. Civil War
Pennsauken, N.J.: BookBaby, 2023
The impulse behind the colony of Maryland came from George Calvert, Lord Baltimore — a convert to Roman Catholicism. The Royal Charter for it was granted to his son Cecil in 1632. The colony’s purpose was to provide a refuge for English Catholics, and for a time Catholics dominated its government, although it was religiously tolerant toward Protestants. (more…)
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Hamas fighters attacked Israeli military positions and settlements near Gaza on October 7 and took the Israelis completely by surprise. Around 1,400 Israelis, many of them soldiers, were killed, and hundreds of Israeli civilians were taken captive to be used as barter in the eventual ceasefire negotiations. (more…)
Peter’s vision was a rejection of Jewish influence upon Christianity.
Peter’s vision was a rejection of Jewish influence upon Christianity.
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The Damnatio Memoriae of Lucius Aelius Sejanus and the Jews of the Roman Empire
During Jesus’ ministry, the Emperor of Rome was Tiberius Caesar, but the government of Rome was administered by Lucius Aelius Sejanus. Pontius Pilate, a client of Sejanus and the husband of Ceasar Augustus’ granddaughter, was Governor of Judea. Herod Antipas was the tetrarch of Galilee. (more…)
The Council of Jerusalem is the decisive meeting in which the separation between Christians and Jews was ratified.
The Council of Jerusalem is the decisive meeting in which the separation between Christians and Jews was ratified.
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But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, for what he did was very wrong. When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile believers, who were not circumcised. But afterward, when some friends of James came, Peter wouldn’t eat with the Gentiles anymore. He was afraid of criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity of circumcision. (more…)
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David Burkus
Leading from Anywhere: The Essential Guide to Managing Remote Teams
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2021
The teleworking revolution is here, and it has the chance to change everything. I personally did a great deal of teleworking during the pandemic, and I worked harder, got more done, saved money and time, and paid off my debts. Teleworking likewise gives people the chance to live where they want to live. Many distressed small towns can be revived with a well-paid teleworking work force. (more…)
The pro-Palestinian demonstration that was held in London last Saturday. The crowd was estimated to be 150,000 people.
The pro-Palestinian demonstration that was held in London last Saturday. The crowd was estimated to be 150,000 people.
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Aside from Thomas Jefferson writing “all men are created equal” while he was a slave owner, the biggest mistake the founding fathers made was the Naturalization Act of 1790. It only limited naturalization to free white persons of good moral character. (more…)
Republican Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota.
Republican Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota.
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North Dakota’s newspaperman
Understanding how Americans were duped into entering the First World War while preventing America entering a second war became the life’s work of a North Dakota isolationist and politician named Gerald Prentice Nye (1892-1971). (more…)
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See also: “Colonel McCormick,” “America First 1939-1941,” “Wind Down the Empire of Nothing,” & “America’s Endless Wars” (more…)
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Robert Lighthizer
No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers
New York: Broadway Books, 2023
See also: “Intrigue in the Indo-Pacific,” “After the Empire of Nothing,” “The Fall of the Neoliberal Order,” and “Globalism”
It is no secret that Americans have suffered under the free trade ideology which came to the fore during the Clinton years. In the 1990s, for example, every small town in Illinois had a factory. (more…)
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Amy Kaplan
Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018
It is well known that Zionist Jews used their incredible influence upon American society and the Truman administration to achieve American recognition and support for the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. It is likewise known that Christian Zionists continue to support Israel to the furthest degree which the highly limited white Christian influence upon America goes. (more…)
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Jeff Flynn-Paul
Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World
New York-Nashville: Bombardier Books/Post Hill Press, 2023
. . . [N]early all the stereotypes about American Indians that the Left holds dear are traceable to the naivete of the 1970s progressive movement. Almost all these stereotypes arose in white, middle-class American households; they generally reflect liberal talking points such as environmentalism, anti-capitalism, and the peace movement. (more…)