Author of The Revolutionary Paul Revere
Today is the 250th anniversary of Guinness! In honor of the occasion, help us spread the word about Stephen Mansfield’s newest book, The Search for God and Guinness.
What’s The Story?
The Search for God and Guinness is about beer, business, and one of the world’s most popular and enduring brands. But it’s also about:
living your faith [...]
Arthur Guinness wasn’t fooling around. He was mad as a hornet and wielding a pickaxe. Stand back.
The year was 1771 and Guinness needed more water for his brewery. So he opened up a new watercourse and swapped out the pipes running to his shop from the River Liffey with larger ones. In addition to the [...]
History is the story of God’s past providence in the lives of people. This is true for major events: Constantine battling at Milvian Bridge, Luther protesting at Wittenberg, King James commissioning the Bible that bears his name
Last week Amazon deleted copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm from some of their customers’ Kindles.
Jane Fonda popularized the phrase “no pain, no gain” in her exercise videos of the 1980s. But we all know Fonda nicked it from Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard. “There are no Gains without Pains,” runs just one of a thousand aphorisms in his 1758 essay, “The Way to Wealth.” And Ben pinched it from seventeenth [...]
One of the most fascinating figures I’ve discovered while researching about the life of Paul Revere is Jonathan Mayhew. He was the pastor at West Church in Boston. He is often cited as the first Unitarian, and in his letters you can read him complaining about, among other things, the average Bostonian’s “zeal for Athanasian [...]
As right-wing political dominance wanes, politicians, pundits, and activists are waxing nostalgic for progressive policies of yesteryear — shaking loose the mothballs, dusting off the attic cake, looking for the polishing kit. One of these policies is the Fairness Doctrine, which mandated that one broadcast opinion should be balanced by competing views.
What’s the connection between political campaigns and megachurches? As this post explains, the secret to building a successful megachurch is in evangelizing people inside cultural subsets rather than imploring people to venture outside of their subset. Political machines are putting the same strategy to use. Here’s the underlying cultural dynamic at play:
Neighbors witnessing to neighbors [...]
Rush Limbaugh interviewed Bill Buckley in the mid-nineties for his radio show. I remember listening, but now after more than a decade I recall only one comment. Discussing his faith, Buckley affirmed that, yes, he was a Christian. But that he thought perhaps he wasn’t a very good one.
Despite their obvious differences, Das Kapital and The Wealth of Nations share at least one similarity: Nobody reads them. In the case of Karl Marx, this is no tragedy. Thanks to the colorful antics of history (many of them sticky and sanguinary), anyone can see that the bewhiskered dreamer was full of crap.
Not so with Adam [...]
