Artifacts of a Life Once Lived

Life has been a bit strange the past couple months: Graduation, Girls, Employment, Future, etc., etc. I can’t really explain all that’s going on, but I learned in a counseling class once about “stress points.” When you have high stress points, you have a higher chance of slipping into depression or some sort of psychological ailment. I told one friend, “I think where I’m at is not a point of trust or “out of God’s will”, but rather a point of impatience. I’m tired of living like a college kid. I’m tired of living with boys. I’m tired of being insignificant. I gave the last 8 years because I believe God has a purpose and now for what? Where is it? I’m being shortsighted. I’m being impatient. I’m complaining. I’m dissatisfied and discontent. It’s immature and is teaching me who I really am deep down inside which is saddening, to say the least.” My other friend whom I have been talking to responded to my remark: “Dude…we are broken people, living in a broken world. We believe in a benevo...

  Since were on this subject anyway, check out the post at The Fire and the Rose .   Randal Balmer is perhaps one of the most level-headed people and he should be given ear.

This census seems to only include "denominational" Baptist church bodies and does not include the blessed "Independent-Fundamental-Bible-Believing" Baptist churches. Any way, this map portrays what we are already thinking. The evangelical/fundamentalist movement is directly associated with conservative politics. My good friend Joel asks, "In a more general sense, is conservative, American thinking bound up tightly in the Christianity of Baptists?" I would answer emphatically in the affirmative.

The ORIGINAL POST which first describes the situation that happened to me. I left Rochester, NY (ROC) on Sunday at 2PM on AirTran to Baltimore (BWI) and then from BWI to Dallas-Ft. Worth (DFW). I arrived at BWI almost on time. My flight from BWI to DFW was to arrive at 8:45 PM on Sunday. About 5PM the flight was delayed due to weather in ATL to about 10PM. I sat. I watched the monitors. 10PM... 11PM... 12AM... and then finally at 1AM the plane which we were to board to DFW arrived. I watched the people de-plane and then the crew. The lady said we would be depart within 30 minutes. 30 minutes passed and the lady said then the lady called out, "Flight XXX to DFW has been CANCELED." There is a sigh of exhaustion for a while as the people quickly realize what is happening. The lady (ONE employee to care for 104 passengers who had been working for 14hrs at that point)then gets on the intercom and says, "I am going call each person by their last name and get you booked on the...

The bind between American political allegiance and Protestant evangelical conservatism is a key which unlocks the door of much early American civil history especially during the antebellum era through the early 20th century. To be conservative and American meant that you must regard a Protestant form of Christianity, namely the revivalistic, moral gospel which declared a morally conservative view of the socio-political system as king. In fact, not to be Protestant and politically conservative was in line with defaming the stars and stripes. Hart describes a situation in the early 20th century where the state of Utah elected and appointed a Mormon Apostle, Reed Smoot, to the U.S. Senate. Smoot underwent serious investigation from a Senate appointed committee to deliberate upon the ability of a Mormon to function in the place of a Senator given his religious views. The conservative Protestant ethos of the age was skeptical of any other religious conviction in its ability to be “American”...