by Pamela Herna | Dec 16, 2013 | American Christian Exceptionalism, Current Issues, Featured
The following post is part of our ongoing Advent Synchroblog called #fleshYGod, bringing the Incarnation into conversation with culture. Anyone with a television probably knows that Fox News reporter Megyn Kelly recently announced that the historical Santa Claus and...
by Pamela Herna | Nov 5, 2013 | American Christian Exceptionalism, Featured, Stuff My Christian School Teacher Said, Stuff My Sunday School Teacher Said
Thanksgiving Day floats its own kind of memories for me: Pumpkin Pie, Turkey, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, NFL football–that awkward moment when my cousin Chris and I accidentally fired a rifle inside Grammy’s house. The season brings collective Americana into...
by Pamela Herna | Oct 16, 2013 | American Christian Exceptionalism, Featured, Stuff My Christian School Teacher Said
Did the American forefather’s establish an explicitly Christian nation? This is the question I’ve begun tackling in my series on “The Roots of American Christian Exceptionalism.” The proponents of such a revisionist history use only cherry picked items from history to...
by Pamela Herna | Oct 15, 2013 | American Christian Exceptionalism, Current Issues, Featured, Stuff My Christian School Teacher Said
Continuing with the roots of American Christian Exceptionalism, we look at their teachings on the Pilgrims. In her Reconstructionist masterpiece The Christian History of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. I, Rousas Rushdoony friend and associate Verna M....
by Pamela Herna | Oct 10, 2013 | American Christian Exceptionalism, Current Issues, Featured, Stuff My Christian School Teacher Said
Right-Wing revisionist history is nothing new in American politics. Whether we find it in psuedo-historians like David Barton, or in recent movies by Kirk Cameron, the desire towards establishing an American Christian Exceptionalism in our nation’s past seems almost...
by Pamela Herna | Oct 9, 2013 | American Christian Exceptionalism, Current Issues, Featured, Stuff My Christian School Teacher Said
Anyone following the current government shutdown can’t help but hear the religious catchphrases being tossed around lately. Speaking to the theology behind the government shutdown, Morgan Guyton recently re-introduced the blogosphere to the Christian Dominionism of...
