Michael Waldman writes about the recent Supreme Court gun ruling: The Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday striking down a New York gun law isn’t just the most significant ruling on the Second Amendment in a dozen years — it may be the...
Henry Ward Beecher
Who Speaks for Evangelicalism?
I was struck by this question again yesterday in class. We were reading Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address and I was asking students to compare Lincoln’s moral vision in the address with the anti-Confederate writings of some 19th-century Christian leaders. One...
The Beechers
Walter Woodward, the Connecticut State Historian, discusses the most accomplished family in Connecticut history. A taste: The son of a New Haven blacksmith, Lyman Beecher (1775 – 1863) became one of America’s most influential Second Great Awakening ministers while fathering...