Wendler commentary: Thoughts from a principled conservative outpost
The value of established customs and traditions are not the walls of a prison cell but doorways to new ideas.
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The value of established customs and traditions are not the walls of a prison cell but doorways to new ideas.
[Apologies for the long delay on this one, a combination of writer's block and a house move slowed me down this summer. Hopefully the next installment will follow more rapidly!] Railroads and Continental Power The Victorian Era saw the age of steam at its flood tide. Steam-powered ships could decide the fate of world affairs,…
The Amazon & BBC western TV series The English intertwines birth and death in its narrative that serves as a parable for America.
WALTER WENDLER Editor's Note: Fifth in a series on the Heart and Soul of the Texas Panhandle. It is difficult to separate the faith of people in the Texas Panhandle from daily life, the way of American frontiers for centuries. The lives of early settlers in the Panhandle are challenging to separate from their beliefs in God guided chiefly by Christianity—typically Congregationalist, Anglican or Episcopalian thinking and action. Spawned by the Second Great Awakening, Evangelical Methodism and Baptist thought were growing in influence, especially in the frontier's hard-to-reach locations. The...