In honor of President’s Day: Andrew Johnson, the 17th POTUS, is way more interesting than he will ever be given credit for because of our tendency to filter history through a lens referred to as the Whig historiography, or in more modern parlance, the “progressive view of history”. I.e. there’s a steady line of improvement…
Category: History
The Reasons for the Christmas Nativity Story
The two most indelible and widely-known parts of the story of Jesus are certainly the Christmas story, and the Easter story. Even the most casual churchgoer at least gets the basic narratives down. It’s Christmastime at the time of this writing, so I’m in the mood to talk about Christmas. I’ve heard the sermons enough…