Anniversaries are mixed blessings with many meanings. With only 365 days in the year, each date inevitably carries with it uncountable memories for innumerable people -- associations joyous and tragic, transcendent and mundane, world-historical and personal.
And then there are those events so exalting or traumatic that they appropriate their...
Posted July 2, 2011 | 14:20:04 (EST)
For some relevant reading on this Independence Three-Day Weekend, one can hardly do better than "God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution". At a time when both American history and religion are hotly contested territory -- caught between purported dichotomies of holiness and nihilism, theocracy...
Posted September 15, 2011 | 15:02:19 (EST)