Archive for August 2022
The Summer of ’77: When a Bible Shortage Forced the Hand of Congress
TweetShareShareThe summer of 2022 was a season for shortages. From fuel to rental cars, certain food items to paper goods, stock was low and prices were high. Gasoline, for the first time in U.S. history averaged more than $5/gallon. In some places a gallon of petrol could run as high as $10/gallon! But it wasn’t…
Read MoreThe Yale Man: How One American Preacher Lit the Fuse for the First Great Awakening Revivals
TweetShareShareAmerica’s first colleges were in the Ivy League. And they were created for a distinct purpose. The original 1636 purpose of a Harvard education was to “…advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity: dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.” Essentially, Harvard trained the…
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