Today is “Independence Day,” and we celebrate all that it means. Thanks to the brave men and women of 1776, we enjoy a nation of unprecedented #freedom, abundance, and prosperity unlike anything in the history of the world. But, as Benjamin Franklin would famously say later, it’s our republic, “If we can keep it.” WeContinue reading “Independence Day: Still Worth Celebrating”
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Sorry, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving Isn’t About You.
Forget “Black Friday” sales or pumpkin pie or mashed potatoes. Thanksgiving isn’t about them. Forget the Pilgrims or the Plymouth Rock or the Wampanoags or Squanto. It isn’t about them either. At least it wasn’t in 1863, when Thanksgiving Day, as we know it now, first came to be. Abraham Lincoln wasn’t thinking about starchedContinue reading “Sorry, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving Isn’t About You.”
One Child
Christmas is the season of light and hope. It’s the celebration of that moment in time when heaven and earth met—when God wrapped himself in humanity and became not a conquering hero, but a tiny, helpless baby. Just one child among millions born into this world. And yet, this One Child—this is the One ChildContinue reading “One Child”
Duane S. Montague 