Recently, I became cognizant that every post on Patriots and Peoples the past three years has been about guns in one way or another. There ...

The Second Amendment by Michael Waldman My rating: 3 of 5 stars Disappointing On the one hand, The Second Amendment: A Biography offe...

There are books that I start over and over again, always returning them to the shelf before getting far. There are many reasons for this beh...

The revolutionary generation who separated the American colonies from Britain and crafted a new nation managed to blend the secularism of th...

Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. Attributed to Benjamin Franklin There are plenty of references to beer in Benjamin...

An article in The Nation today informs me that Republican Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann was a research assistant for John Eidsm...

Paul Revere's letter to Jeremy Belknap (1798) offers his own account of an event that has been much memorialized, mythologized, and misu...

Jesus is benevolence personified, an example for all men. John Adams How significant was Christianity to the American Revolution? To the ...

Celebrations of John Calvin's birthday have brought out a flurry of pronouncements of an old idea. Many Americans in the nineteenth cent...

History is eloquent in declaring that American democracy was born of Christianity and that Christianity was Calvinism. Loraine Boettner, Th...