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The Red, White & Blue Envelope, Please: Answers to Our July 4 Quiz
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Jana Riess
On Tuesday we interrupted this blog’s usual silliness to bring you an actual history quiz, based on a terrific book I’m editing: Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? by John Fea. The book will be out in February. If you’re interested in a really good short defense of secularism in our nation’s founding documents,…
How Long Does It Take to Turn Evil? David, Saul & the Dark Side in This Week’s Twible (1 Samuel 22-28)
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Jana Riess
We’ve all heard the saying: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That’s come home to me anew in this week’s chapters of the Twible. How long does it take for political leaders to turn sour? Political leaders who start out with such promise and dedication and then slowly – or even quickly – succumb…
The Eclipse-d First Filler Novella of Stephenie Meyer: A Review of Bree Tanner
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Jana Riess
You’ve got your work cut out for you when you’re Stephenie Meyer. When you dare to write an in-between novella, the same people who criticized your doorstopping tomes of old now complain that you’re holding out on them by penning a 168-page glorified short story. The people who got angry that there was too much…
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