Gettysburg

Why didn’t President Biden kick off his campaign at Gettysburg?

By Mark Silk — January 8, 2024
(RNS) — The comparison to outright Civil War was likely too dangerous.

Despite Mastriano’s loss, don’t count out Christian nationalism

By Jack Jenkins — November 8, 2022
(RNS) — ‘Winning a race like Mastriano’s in Pennsylvania, leaning on Christian nationalism, is harder than, perhaps, a congressional seat in the South,’ said sociologist Andrew Whitehead.

How Doug Mastriano uses faith to fend off criticism — even from other Christians

By Jack Jenkins — September 15, 2022
GETTYSBURG, Pa.(RNS) — ‘They’re actually supposed to pray for me and support me as their government leader,’ Mastriano said, referring to the Lutheran pastors who criticized him. ‘I’m over them politically. I’m their senator.’

Two Lutheran seminaries to close and reopen as new school

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — January 15, 2016
(RNS) The new plan comes as mainline Protestant seminaries take steps to weather financial storms caused by an average drop in enrollments of nearly 24 percent since 2005.

Can a nation so wounded by its divisions survive? (COMMENTARY)

By Tom Ehrich — November 25, 2014
(RNS) We must ask who we are. Not what advertisers say we are, but who we actually are.

COMMENTARY: God didn’t choose sides at Gettysburg

By A. James Rudin — July 1, 2013
(RNS) Despite the North's victory at Gettysburg, it seems the only other victors were the munitions makers and cigar manufacturers. Everyone else lost, including those who presumed to know the will of God.
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