Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (Part 3)
In 1852, Frederick Douglass boldly spoke out against a clear, irrefutable evil: American slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act. The aim of his attack wasn’t ...
Category: Western Culture
Frederick Douglass: “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (Part 2)
It’s the Fourth of July, so I had better crank this post out. In my last post, I provided some background to Frederick Douglass’ speech, “What to the Slave is t...
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” –Frederick Douglass (Part 1)
For several reasons, I have hardly written anything on my blog since around October. Aside from one four-part series on The Crucible, anything I have posted has...
The Selfish Meme Strikes Back: New Atheism’s Failed Crusade
I am in the middle of going back through all of my blog posts over these past ten years and self-publishing various collections from all my work. Last month, I ...
A Brief US History Lesson: Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
This year I am teaching American Literature to 11th graders. Personally, I’m not a fan of the textbook. For being an American Literature textbook, there are qui...
Partisanship (Part 3): A Dan McClellan BONUS! (And a springboard into another book analysis)
As fate would have it, over this past week while I have been writing two posts inspired a couple things Peter Enns posted regarding MAGA pastors and the issue o...
Peter Enns, MAGA Pastors, and Partisanship…and Syncretism (Part 2): What is the source of the current partisan divide?
In my last post, I made a few comments regarding two posts Peter Enns recently put out regarding a few “MAGA pastors.” And while I agree with him for the most p...
Peter Enns, MAGA Pastors, and Partisanship…and Syncretism…and Prophets (and what I think is a major problem within Evangelicalism and ex-Evangelicalism these days)
It has been over two months since I’ve last written anything on my blog. The end of the school year, as well as a few other contributing factors, has taken up m...
“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar—A Book Analysis (Part 6: Chapters 6-8—Conclusion and Final Thoughts)
We now come to my final post in my book analysis of Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning. In this post, I am going to fly through chapters 6-8 and then...
“Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning” by Nigel Biggar: A Book Analysis (Part 5: Chapter 5—Cultural Genocide?)
Here in Part 5 of my book analysis of Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, I am primarily going to cover chapter 5 of his book, “Cultural Assimilation...