John Schmalzbauer
OzarksWatcher
Visited site of the first sermon, the first service and the first congregation in Springfield, Missouri, held in a log cabin built by enslaved men and women for the use
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Apparently, the Moral Majority once supported the wearing of face masks (to stop a disease that was not airborne). First ran across this when teaching about @anthonympetro's work on AIDS
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RIP, historian Donald Dayton, creative contrarian in religion and politics.https://twitter.com/CTmagazine/status/1260401883174375430 A work of history and a tract for the times, Dayton’s Discovering an Evangelical Heritage first appeared
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Last weekend I did some genealogical digging motivated by our current crisis. Since childhood, I'd heard that my great-grandmother's sister died in the flu epidemic of 1918. A few weeks
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"Our people desire to be helpful in every possible way. So, of course, we will respect the requests and suggestions of the health authorities. But while closing our public places
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