vietnam war

What went through the mind of this haunted man with the “thousand-yard stare” in his later years as he shuffled back and forth to work just “a hand grenade’s throw” from the Vietnam War Memorial?

The words of our top general in Iraq—words I’ve described as myths—are those that the president says will determine his war policy.

Despite our annual effort to remember it differently, Dr. King was universally criticized for his refusal to be a good “Negro leader”.

Did Lofton’s critique go far enough? Was it too measured and neutral? Scholar Mark Hulsether writes that “given the issues at stake in the current election and the huge gap in scholarly persuasiveness between some articulations of Christianity and others, this is a place where my own inclination would be to draw more critics out of the shadows and to give them space to twist their knives harder.”

A flock, maybe, but certainly not sheep; nuances of the pulpit-pew relationship.