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The austere public moralist was capable of some extremely fallible private behavior, and his biographer does not back away from such lapses. Lippmann urged President Wilson to begin military conscription, then worked hard to make sure that he would not have to serve himself. "What I want to do is...
In Dallas, at the end of a busy week, Reagan received a tumultuous reception from some 15,000 Protestant ministers and lay leaders. The candidate promised "a foreign policy which understands the danger we face from governments and ideologies that are at war with the very ideas of religion and...
The other half fully lived up to Wesley's prediction. Especially in America. Into the 1950s, some 90% of the Protestant Church's new members came from Sunday schools.
Today the National Council of Churches likes to boast that Sunday schools are still the nation's biggest volunteer enterprise, with a total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern...
Strangely enough, it is this slapdash indictment of the American system that differentiates these first "summer" films of the eighties from movies of other summers. Neither of these films has a political consciousness to speak of, and both are only mildly--and spottily--entertaining. But each takes a stab at...