The app for independent voices
Do church going people actually want their church to talk about the political divisions in the United States?
Absolutely not.
Just 14% of evangelicals want it to be discussed.
18% of mainline Protestants.
27% of Catholics.
29% of Latter-day Saints.
A new personal best white bass! 17.75 inches!
You made it, you own it
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Let's make today's unpopular Pipe Cottage statement: the federal government is instituting protectionist tariffs that will benefit a few industries at the expense of others. (And for those who want to further study why protectionist tariffs are a bad idea, read John C. Calhoun's opposition to the Tariff of 1828.) I don't think many people know how tariffs work. But let me offer a simple history lesson. The purpose of tariffs at the point of the Founding was to simply fund the central government…
Great discussions
Join the most interesting and insightful discussions.
Every year the United Methodist Church sponsors a hiking chaplain on the Appalachian Trail. This year’s chaplain is Stephen Hawley (trail name “Father Time”). Last week he baptized a fellow hiker in Fontana Lake. Church can happen anywhere!
The biggest negatives I remember from life in the 1980s:
1. No air conditioning. We didn’t have it at least
Very limited access to information. Three TV networks. One local newspaper. No internet. A handful of reference works (like encyclopedias). The library was the main place for info discovery. (Yes, I know cable was expanding but we couldn’t get it)
Horrible consumer amenities. It was hard to get a good cup of coffee for example. America was still a mass consumer society.