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Summary: Did America have a Christian Founding? This disputed question, far from being only of historical interest, has important implications for how we conceive of the role of religion in the American republic. Mark David Hall begins by considering two popular answers to the query—“Of course not!” and “Absolutely!”—both of which distort the Founders’ views. After showing that Christian ideas were one of the important intellectual influences on the Founders, he discusses three major areas of agreement with respect to religious liberty and church–state relations at the time of ...

Amateur Radio Credited with Rescue of Back-Country Hiker in Tennessee 04/28/2021 A back-country hiker was rescued from Great Smoky Mountains National Park with assistance from amateur radio after she became exhausted on the trail and possibly dehydrated. A member of the hiking group on the park’s Little River Trail, Tim Luttrell, KA9EBJ, put out a call on the evening of April 11 via the W4KEV linked VHF repeater in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, requesting assistance in extricating the injured member. No cell phone service was available at the location, and Luttrell’s signal was spotty at ti...

'em? what ideas of liberty did they bring with them? to answer them i'm going to share three quotations, and there are just a few papers out there with copies of them, but i'll read them for you. to give you an idea of the scope and the nature of the argument i'm making. the first quotation comes from the independent advertiser which is a newspaper put out by a young samuel adams in boston in the late 1740s. lot of english authorities. he often doesn't actually attribute them, he just runs articles as they tended to do. and sometimes they said these are from our great authors but did...