A principle of the Kingdom of God is that we reap what we sow. This is the reality of history. Amid much of the chaos, today lies the fragile and weak seeds that nations and leaders sowed in the past. At the End of History, we enjoy discovering the roots of those tangled webs of self-destruction by taking a deep look at the history behind today’s disorder.
Reading Time: 11 minutes This article explores the history of Haiti that brought us to the present status. The assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse this week is only the latest drama to erupt from a nation built through tales of injustice and tragedy. For the last yea,r the country has been without a parliament as Moïse ruled by…
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Barry Goldwater is recalled to today’s popular imagination, he is remembered as an extremist, a danger, and a war hawk. In his 1964 acceptance speech at the Republican convention, he famous said, “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.” Critics heard the threat of nuclear war in these words and missed the fact…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thirty years before Abraham Lincoln was elected President, a Congressman named Henry Clay was doing everything he could to address the American states’ growing divisions. The story of Henry Clay is next in our podcast series on The Losers, the people who ran for President and lost. THIS PODCAST EPISODE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND IS…
Reading Time: 2 minutes When the Great Depression hit, everyone saw their political philosophies and ideologies upended. Franklin Roosevelt himself said much of the New Deal was just trying a little bit of everything to find what would work. In that environment, many people toyed with socialism and communism in the 1930s. A lot of these experimenters would live to…
Reading Time: 2 minutes This first episode in our podcast, The Losers, tells the story of William Jennings Bryan. Bryan is what you would get if you combined Pat Robertson and Alexandria Octavio-Cortez into one person? Ok, maybe that’s a little bit of stretch – but just a little. Bryan ran for President three times between 1896 and 1908.…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Losers tells the story of people lost to the pages of popular American history. They once presented the country with a vision of the future. They offered a unique interpretation of what America meant to the world. This short podcast series tells the story of candidates who stood at the precipice of the American…
Reading Time: 2 minutes This timeline of the World Health Organization and its history helps shine a light on the organization’s purpose and achievements. I referenced this timeline in the recent podcast episode Eradicating Disease part of our ongoing podcast series Plagued: Humanity’s History with Disease, Outbreaks, and Pandemics. 1851 – The first International Sanitary Conference convenes in Paris in response…
Reading Time: 8 minutes In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson ran for reelection on the slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War.” It was a reference to World War I that was raging in Europe at the time and the majority of Americans wanted nothing to do with it. Wilson won reelection and in short order changed his mind and…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Our final podcast episode of 2019 looks at the decade in review. For better or for worse, the second decade of the 21st century was packed with history-making events and actors. In America this decade held the Tea Party and the Occupy Movement, President Obama and President Trump, the end of the worst recession since…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Christian theologian, pastor, writer, and ultimately martyr. As Hitler and the Nazis rose to power in Germany in the 1930s and 40s Bonhoeffer was among a minority of voices who took a conscientious stand against the Nazi ideology and specifically Adolf Hitler. He warned that Christians were being caught up in…
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