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Carl Long, A Pioneer of Civil Rights and Basaeball Passes Away
Me with Carl Long at Grainger Stadium, Kinston NC, 2011 I lost a friend yesterday. Carl Long, a former Negro League player and member of the Negro League Hall of Fame passed away yesterday. He had...
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The Fever and the Fear: Conservative American Christians and Judgment at...
padresteve:Friends of Padre Steve’s World I am going to be out tonight spending some time with a friend who needs to download and when I come home I want to spend the remaining part of the evening just...
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“Tho’ all the world betray thee” The Minstrel Boy
The Minstrel Boy (Thomas Moore) The minstrel boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death ye will find him; His father’s sword he hath girded on, And his wild harp slung behind him; “Land of Song!”...
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The Unbelief of Fundamentalism: Distant Origin
“Man no longer lives in the beginning–he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the...
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Beginnings of Women’s Equality and the Civil War
Seneca Falls Convention Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is a newly written section of my introductory chapter for my Civil War and Gettysburg text. In that introductory chapter I dealt with many...
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Emancipation and the U.S. Military: the Civil War and After
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Tomorrow is the holiday where we remember the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. So I felt it appropriate to put out a revised section of my Civil War and Gettysburg...
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Martin Luther King Jr’s Dream that Cannot be Allowed to Die
“Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We...
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The Civil War and the Transformation of Naval Warfare
Friends of Padre Steve’s World For the past month I have been doing a lot of work on my Civil War and Gettysburg text. As I looked at the first chapter which deals with the Civil War being the first...
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Our Army Would be Invincible if…” Confederate Leadership Pt.1
Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is the first part of a chapter that I am revising for my Gettysburg text. It deals with the problems faced by Robert E. Lee as he attempted to reorganize the Army of...
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The Wannabe Inquisitors: Christian Trolls
Friends of Padre Steve’s World Just a short post today, I have spent most of the day over at the Naval Medical Center, getting my initial evaluation for Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussive Syndrome...
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“Our Army Would Be Invincible” Pt.2 Longstreet’s First Corps
Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is the second part of my re-written chapter on the leadership of Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg. Today is a look at the leaders of Lieutenant General James...
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Heresy, Love, and Faith: My Journey
I like hard questions and hard cases. My life has been quite interesting and that includes my faith journey as a Christian and human being. It is funny that in my life I have as I have grown older...
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Let’s Play Two: Rest in Peace Ernie Banks
Banks being welcomed into Heaven by Harry Carey and Ron Santo “It’s a beautiful day for a ballgame… Let’s play two!” Ernie Banks We lost yet another pioneer of baseball and civil rights, Ernie Banks,...
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Inheriting the Wind: Iowa & the GOP 2015
I wonder about the people now leading the Republican Party, especially the Christian Right and the politicians that fall all over themselves to ingratiate themselves to get their vote. I wonder if...
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The Wrong Train: The Christian Culture War
Yesterday, I wrote about the scary similarities that I saw in the weekend gathering of Christian Right leaders at the Iowa Freedom Summit, to the prayer meeting in the classic film Inherit the Wind. I...
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Our Army Would Be Invincible If: Pt 3 Ewell’s Second Corps
Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is the third part of my re-written chapter on the leadership of Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg. Today is a look at the leaders of Lieutenant General Richard...
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Auschwitz at 70: Never Again
Seventy years ago on January 27th 1945 the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, the centerpiece of the Nazi Death Camp machine. Though it did not end the Nazi genocide against...
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“Our Army Would Be Invincible If…” Pt.4 A.P. Hill’s Third Corps
Friends of Padre Steve’s World This is the fourth part of my re-written chapter on the leadership of Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg. Today is a look at the leaders of Lieutenant General A.P....
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The Feet of Clay of the Best and Brightest
General Allenby: [leafing through Lawrence’s dossier] “Undisciplined… unpunctual… untidy. Knowledge of music… knowledge of literature… knowledge of… knowledge of… you’re an interesting man there’s no...
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Heroes or Villains? Snipers and Moral Ambiguity
I saw the movie American Sniper when it came out two weeks ago, I have not read the book, though I have read excerpts of it, and both seen and read many of Chris Kyle’s responses to questions in...
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