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I’ve been fascinated and bewildered as I’ve been thinking about revivalism lately. Check out this collection of photos of an Oral Roberts healing service and try making sense of what’s going on. The whole phenomenon of the big tent revival seems to me to hold some profound keys to the nature of American identity. Charles [...]

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Andrew Bacevich is one of the few voices in the American political scene today that has anything worthwhile to say.  In the words of a friend of mine, “He’s not a moron.”  I can’t wait to begin reading his new book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, which has been on backorder [...]

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I just finished reading a pretty fantastic book by Arthur McGill called Life and Death: An American Theology. He is one of those authors that have a way of packing the entire content of their message into every sentence they write. So, if you care to read this book, be ready to be [...]

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Arthur McGill, in a phenomenal book entitled Life and Death: An American Theology, makes the argument that the ethos of America at large is marked by a fatal need to extinguish all visible signs of death from its existence. This, for him, is motivated by an ultimate fear of death, wherein one believes it [...]

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At the risk of glaring selectivity, I must nevertheless point out three predominant features of the American mythos: 1) Liberty, by which we mean self-determination, freedom from the external demands of others; 2) Prosperity, by which we mean the possession of expendable wealth; and 3) Security, by which we mean the extermination of all threats [...]

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Barak Obama, as far as I can tell (which knowledge comes from scanning his book for about half an hour at Costco) is a good man, and a genuine Christian. From his stump speech, he is much more optimistic about the potential of Americanism than I am but there are quite a few things [...]

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