There are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Today it appears that Donald Trump has entered the second stage: It appears that the court evangelicals are all at different stages in the grieving process. Let’s check...
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Michelle Obama’s DNC convention speech was deeply Christian
After the first night of the Democratic National Convention I tuned into Fox News. Laura Ingraham was on the air and, as might be expected, she was trashing the convention. I stopped watching after about forty minutes of analysis from...
The Author’s Corner with Brian Dirck
Brian Dirck is a Professor of History at Anderson University. This interview is based on his new book, The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death (Southern Illinois University Press, 2019). JF: What led you to write The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and...
Grieving as a Historian
Stepháne Gerson, a historian of France at New York University, lost his eight-year old son on rafting trip on the Utah and Colorado border in 2006. His Chronicle of Higher Education essay, “History in the Face of Catastrophe,” describes how history served...