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Monthly Archives: November 2018
Harry and Harold
President Harry S Truman and Governor Harold E. Stassen were divided by party lines, but they had more in common than either would have admitted. Both ordered the racial integration of armed forces under their command, in Truman’s case all … Continue reading
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And, like most women in ministry, she makes it look easy.
The concept of Mary as the Untier of Knots was well known in the 17th and 18th centuries and is best memorialized by a 1700 painting by Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, saw Schmidtner’s painting … Continue reading
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Johnny, We Still Hardly Knew Ye
May 29, 2019 – Reposting this essay on President Kennedy’s 102nd birthday. November 22, 2018 – Today is Thanksgiving and also the 55th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As Billy Joel put it, “JFK, blown away, what … Continue reading
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An American Baptist Cartoon Memoir – Just for fun
I served on the communications staff of American Baptist Churches in the USA for two decades. Most of that time I was editor of The American Baptist Magazine, a position I assumed as a callow youth. I was a naïve … Continue reading
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American Baptist Cartoon Memoir – Current Events
Martin Luther King Jr. and his father, the redoubtable Martin Luther King, Sr., were American Baptist ministers. Most Baptists celebrated when President Ronald Reagan finally signed legislation to make King’s birthday a national holiday, Other current issues I decided to … Continue reading
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