Posts Tagged ‘American Christianity’
Mission Drift: The Forgotten Story of the Y.M.C.A.
It did not begin with a gymnasium. There were no basketballs, no locker rooms, no swimming pools echoing with whistles and laughter. Long before the letters Y–M–C–A became synonymous with…
Read MoreThe Winter That Should’ve Ended America—And Why It Didn’t
The winter of 1777 should’ve been the end of the Great American Revolution. Everything was going wrong for our patriot forefathers. Throughout the fall of 1777, the British tightened their…
Read MoreHarlan Sanders: The Story of a Colonel Who Found There’s More to Life Than Chicken
The story of Harlan Sanders and Kentucky Fried Chicken is already interesting, but here’s a twist I bet you haven’t heard. Harlan Sanders (1890-1980) was always a late bloomer. He…
Read MoreAlexis De Tocqueville: The French Man Who Saw America’s Past, Present and Future
“[It’s] the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the relationship between character and society in America that has ever been written.”[1] That’s how one historian described Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy…
Read MoreThe Yale Man: How One American Preacher Lit the Fuse for the First Great Awakening Revivals
America’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…
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