It took two years of bloody fighting after Fort Sumter before Abraham Lincoln realized that he could not save the…

Frederick Douglass warned Americans that they must earn their liberty through struggle. This struggle would take many forms. It “may…

Frederick Douglass warned Americans that they must earn their liberty through struggle. “The whole history of the progress of human…

George Washington towered above his contemporaries, including the other Framers. He was the only one who set his own slaves…

One of the most stirring moments for me during the Inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris came during…

HEROES OF THE BIBLE Building the Temple—Peter Building the Temple—Jesus Places of Worship—Following the Way of Jesus Places of Worship—Seeing…

This blog quotes the “Afterword” to my book Visions of America first published in 2004 (together with my book Visions…

This blog is based on passages first published in 2004 in my book Visions of America (published together with my…

This blog is based on passages first published in 2004 in my book Visions of America (published together with my book…

Racism is America gone astray. I use the name “America” differently than the name “United States”. I use the name…