As soon as Russia launched the first volley into Ukraine, Christians began asking, Does the war in Ukraine fit into the end times events prophesied in the Bible? Is Russia Magog in Ezekiel 38? To put a finer point on it: Are we living in the last days? Scan social media, and you’ll find plenty of answers. Some answers come from balanced biblical exegetes (see here and here) and others from hot-headed conspiracy theorists twisting…
Historical figures are being targeted in America. And without much regard for history. Statues of Abraham Lincoln are in the crosshairs. Images of Christopher Columbus, Ulysses S. Grant, and even Matthias Baldwin have been vandalized, presumably due to their association with racism. Baldwin, by the way, was an abolitionist who once suffered a boycott on his railroad business because he advocated for the education of black children. So, there’s that. And then there are the…
It’s a fuzzy memory, but it’s there. On Library Day in the elementary school I attended, I pulled from the shelves a biography of the Marquis de Lafayette. I remember liking the book, reading with fascination the exploits of one of the heroes of the American Revolution. That was the early 1970s. But if I had been a student in the elementary schools of 21st century Cumberland County, I probably would have never seen the…