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There is a growing trend among Southern Baptist churches to adopt an elder-based model over the traditional congregational model.

Why Political Theory Needs History: Dismantling the Liberal-Republican Distinction to Understand the Promise of American Democracy Although political scientists continue to distinguish a so-called Anglo-American liberal tradition from a so-called republican tradition, the distinction makes no sense in the context of American intellectual history. Kloppenberg will first discuss misunderstood figures such as John Adams, James Madison, and James Wilson to show the centrality of democracy for the most important political thinkers of the founding period, then fast forward to John Rawls, often consi...

Francis Shor analyses gender and masculinity in the Australian and American IWW of the 1910s-1920s.

  The final panelist is Tadd Johnson—Senior Director of American Indian Tribal Nations Relations. University of Minnesota - and he joined us this morning to talk a little about the idea of democracy when much of federal policy has been created to deal with the "inconvenience" of Indian tribes.   Today's Journey to Wellness in Indian Country is made possible by the University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth Campus, serving the needs of rural Minnesota and Native American communities and an emerging center of rural, American Indian and indigenous health research. Listen