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Speaking | To Breathe Your Free Air
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To Breathe Your Free Air. Discussions on faith, history, and living in a religiously free culture. This isn’t me, but I can totally pull this look off when I speak. Is America a Christian nation? Does patriotism diminish or augment spirituality? How did Americans come to think of themselves as being special? Do all nations think of themselves as exceptional, or just Americans? What role does war have in the making of American identity? How has Christianity influenced politics in America? Acton Institute ...
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Syllabus-Writing Time of Year Again | To Breathe Your Free Air
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To Breathe Your Free Air. Discussions on faith, history, and living in a religiously free culture. Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and “Listening While White”. The Complexity of American Exceptionalism →. Syllabus-Writing Time of Year Again. August 9, 2015. We’ll also be taking it on the road this fall to some fun conferences. October 15-18: Society for US Intellectual History in Washington, DC. Will be on a panel with Seth Bartee, Gracy Olmstead, Dan McCarthy, Patrick Deneen, Chad Pecknold, and Rand...
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Blog - Paul Emory Putz
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CLICK HERE TO ACCESS MY BLOG. I keep up at personal blog at peputz.blogspot.com. Where I write about basketball, music, history, culture, and whatever else catches my fancy. Below is a sampling of my most popular blog posts*, arranged by category. The NBA Comes to Omaha. The Fifteen Best NBA Teams Of All Time.If Those Teams Were Organized By Players' College Degrees. The Most Interesting College Degrees in the NBA. Looking Backward: Reliving the 1990 NBA Draft. A Summary and Reflection. The Narrow Vision...
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An American Exceptionalism Bibliography | To Breathe Your Free Air
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To Breathe Your Free Air. Discussions on faith, history, and living in a religiously free culture. Obama is Definitely an American Exceptionalist. Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and “Listening While White” →. An American Exceptionalism Bibliography. July 8, 2015. Still, I found each of these books helpful as I considered American exceptionalism. If you are interested in the topic, I hope you may find this bibliography useful. I’ve divided up the books by the following categories:. 8 Mexican American War.
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teaching | To Breathe Your Free Air
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To Breathe Your Free Air. Discussions on faith, history, and living in a religiously free culture. A Tribute to My High School History Teacher, Dr. Doug Frutiger. August 26, 2016. Dr Frutiger’s note to me in my senior yearbook. It reads, “John, The daily handshake, the warm frown and the incessant ‘Why not, Frutiger’ or ‘No way, Frutiger.’ What will I do without them? Dr Frutiger taught for many years after the joy of having me as his student (see the above note for an idea of how wonderful I was). H...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and “Listening While White” | To Breathe Your Free Air
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To Breathe Your Free Air. Discussions on faith, history, and living in a religiously free culture. An American Exceptionalism Bibliography. Syllabus-Writing Time of Year Again →. Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and “Listening While White”. July 18, 2015. Image credit: Penguin Random House. I just finished reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bracing. Between the World and Me. It came in the mail this afternoon, and I picked it up to read this evening. I could not put it down. I read it in one sitting. But perhaps B...
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culture | To Breathe Your Free Air
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To Breathe Your Free Air. Discussions on faith, history, and living in a religiously free culture. Thomas Kidd on Why He Agreed to Counsel Marco Rubio on Religious Liberty. January 12, 2016. Thomas Kidd’s recent biography of George Whitefield. Many of you have probably heard by now that Baylor historian Thomas Kidd. About philosophy this past November. Here’s a portion of what Kidd had to say about joining Rubio in his. Nevertheless, politics matters. We have some exquisitely bad candidates in the 20...
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