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I was about to add the story, but you beat me to it. :P Here's the Denver Post story: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/02/27/investigator-jailed-robert-ray-death-penalty-hearing/ While Lindecrantz is spending her second night in jail, the legal drama has been playing since Jan. 20, when Newman first ...

Twitter being Twitter and the Internet being the Internet, there have been some really nasty things written about Billy Graham. Slate columnist Ruth Graham (no relation) reflects on this: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/02/billy-graham-has-hovered-over-me-my-whole-life-and-not-just-because-i-s...

Just saying “WASHINGTON—Stressing that such an action would be highly reckless, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that releasing the “Nunes Memo” could potentially undermine faith in the massive, unaccountable government secret agencies of the United States.” .. .. https://politics.theo...

Here we have been getting ultra-con propoganda in the mail and in our government. As a liberal in a conservative area, I resonate with this. I'm not sure what Temp describes is any worse than the eight years of propaganda about Obama's birth certificate or that he was a secret Muslim terrorist. Bot...

I'm a bit late to this conversation, but I wonder if this might not be also generational. Neither set of my conservative Mennonite grandparents were physically affectionate in public or to their children. I remember I once impulsively told my grandparents that I loved them. There was this moment of ...

I don't know about the Muensterites being specifically precursors of the Nazis unless you either think of the Nazis as a fanatically religious millenarian movement or of the Muensterites as a racially motivated genocidal movement. What I do see they had in common is an overriding ideological impera...

haithabu wrote: Szdfan, I would be interested in seeing your paper if you would be willing to share it.

I'm happy to share it if I can find it. It's been almost a decade

Boot, in seminary I wrote a paper on a piece called "The Blasphemy of Jan of Leyden," which is attributed to Menno Simons. In my research, I did come across the speculation that some of Menno's earliest followers were survivors of Muenster. There's even speculation that one of Menno's brot...

One of the things that has gone viral this past week, is a short documentary by VICE on HBO, which was on the ground in Charlottesville during the "Unite the Right" rally. While the doc focuses on both the white supremacists and the counter-protesters, it mostly features Christopher Cantwe...

And now because of the moral panic which Charlottesville began, I am afraid that they will be emboldened even more. It is my apprehension that the left in the US will be using Charlottesville as a sort of Reichstag fire issue against conservatives. The Reichstag fire only worked because Hitler was ...