Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abraham Lincoln. Show all posts
Friday, July 8, 2016

Bloody Summer of 2016 and Coming U.S. Elections: "A Great Sorting on the Trump Question Is Coming" (As Guns Fail [Again] to Save Us)

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America, Put the gun on the ground and step away. Please. — Amanda Kerri (@eternalkerri) July 8, 2016
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Reader Writes: "How Do We Know That the Bigotry and Bullying 'in God's Name' Isn't What 'God' Is All About and What 'God' Wants?"

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In a comment this morning responding to my posting yesterday featuring Tom Ehrich's observation  that we in the American public s...
Friday, August 19, 2011

David Bromwich on Obama's Pragmatism: Maxims That Ratify the Existing Order--Any Order

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I'd like to return briefly this morning to the article by David Bromwich to which I linked yesterday, about how the Obama presidency ...
Monday, June 7, 2010

More Reflections on Parallels Between Discussion of Slavery and of Homosexuality: The Persistent Obstructionist Tendency of Churches

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I’ve been involved in two blog threads this weekend, both of which had strong toxins flowing through them.  And it suddenly hits me: the to...

Still Looking for Abraham: Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas on the Morality of Slavery (with Implications for the Debate about Homosexuality in American Today)

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*I mentioned a few days ago that I’ve been reading Daniel Mark Epstein’s Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington (NY:...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

News Updates: Tennessee Gay Firing, Vatican and Human Rights, Obama and Lincoln

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Interesting updates to several items I’ve posted in the recent past. As I noted several days ago, when David Hill, a hotel employee in Tenne...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The Lincoln Bible and Obama's Inauguration

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Andrew Sullivan is reporting today that Barack Obama will use Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inaugural bible at his 2009 inauguration ( http://andre...

Lincoln Vs. Obama re: Better Angels: Demands of the Moral Point of View

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In the wake of the Rick Warren inauguration pick, there’s a lot of chatter online about the Lincoln-Obama analogy. I appreciate the discuss...
Friday, December 19, 2008

Obama and Lincoln: Rick Warren and the Price of Leadership

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As the Civil War approached, a majority of Americans believed that the scriptures support slavery. The abolitionist movement represented a ...