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9-11-01

Episode 7: September 11th and the End of Compassionate Conservatism

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What would evangelical politics be like today if the attacks on 9-11-01 never happened? Episode 7: “September 11th and the End of Compassionate Conservatism” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this narrative history podcast. Here is […]

How is Springsteen is Handling the Lockdown?

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAMkFVJ-ews&w=560&h=315] Here is Bruce Springsteen in his memoir, Born to Run: In the late afternoon, I drove to the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge. There, usually, on a clear day the Twin Towers struck two tiny vertical lines on the horizons […]

Is the 9-11 Era Over?

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Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama, makes the case at The Atlantic. A taste: The first months of this crisis suggest that the world order that emerges on the other end is likely to be permanently altered. […]

Reflecting on September 11, 2001

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I have posted a lot about this day at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Here are some of those pieces: Why September 11 is About Vocation September 11th, Patriotism, and the Human Spirit (at Patheos) The Mike and the […]

Song of the Day

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The Rising: “I was wearin’ the cross of my calling. On wheels of fire I go rollin’ down here.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjPU_SGOqCM&w=560&h=315] \

How Long Will Americans Tolerate This Man as Their President?

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Today I watched Representative Ilhan Omar’s speech on Islam, religious liberty, anti-Muslim bigotry at the Council of American-Islamic Relations. Here is the controversial part of the speech: Here’s the truth: far too long we have lived with the discomfort of […]

Song of the Day #2

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Can’t get through a day like this without listening to “The Rising.”  I’ve written a lot about this song (and the album by the same name) over the years.  I’ve always seen it as a song about vocation. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjPU_SGOqCM&w=560&h=315] […]

Teaching St. Augustine on 9-11-01

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Peter Candler was a graduate student at Duke Divinity School on September 11, 2001.  He was scheduled to give an 11:00am guest lecture in a theological class on St. Augustine’s City of God. He describes what happened on that day in […]

*The Rising* at Fifteen

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In honor of the 15th anniversary of the The Rising, I listened to Bruce Springsteen’s 9-11 album several times on my recent drive from Mechanicsburg to Princeton and back. I have written about The Rising several times here at the blog. […]

The Mike and the Mad Dog 9/11 Tapes

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I just stumbled upon this article at Deadspin. As I have written here before, I spent a lot of time over the years listening to WFAN, New York City’s first sports-talk radio station.  Between 1989 and 2008 Mike Francesa and […]

Promised Land

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6I9BQzI4WE&w=560&h=315]

Lonesome Day

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAMkFVJ-ews&w=560&h=315]