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Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War under Hoover, and the Jesus Road
Patrick Hurley was soldier during World War, Secretary of War during the Hoover administration, a lawyer for the Choctaw people, a diplomat for Franklin Roosevelt during World War II, and a philanthropist. One of the special objects of his philanthropy … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged American Indians, Bacone College, books, Higher Education, history, Missionaries
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Pious Scientists in the Late Middle Ages
Piety, the awe and respect for God and His Creation, drove philosophers and scientists throughout the Christian era beginning during the Roman Empire and continuing through the European Middle Ages—and beyond. Christian philosopher-scientists relied heavily on their Greek and Roman … Continue reading
Posted in books, Christianity, European history, History of Science
Tagged anselm, Christianity, god, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion, Science, thomas-aquinas
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Early Medieval Pious Scientists
The Fall of Rome had a profound effect on learning and knowledge. After the fifth century A.D. those who were concerned with philosophy, which at this time included science, scrambled to keep track of the great books of the Greco-Roman … Continue reading
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Tagged aristotle, boetius, Christianity, history, isidore-of-seville, john-scotus-eriugena, middle-ages, philosophy, Piety, plato, Science
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Philo Judaeus the Pious Scientist
Ancient thinkers–philosophers and scientists–of the Mediterranean world knew that wisdom is a universal that transcends individual knowing, an awareness of truth that transcends the individual existence of each person. The Old Testament and New Testament imply that the Creation has … Continue reading
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Tagged aristotle, Christianity, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion
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Piety and Science
Records of the human quest for knowledge have existed for four to five thousand years, revealing that as humans have confronted the vastness of the cosmos, as they have watched and listened and felt the natural environment, their response has … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, god, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion, Science
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Jack Kilpatrick’s Vision of Bacone College
One of the more famous Bacone alumni was Jack Kilpatrick, a Cherokee, who graduated from Bacone Junior College in 1935. Kilpatrick was a member of the men’s vocal ensemble the Singing Redmen and he was Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacone College, Christianity
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Father Murrow of Bacone College and the Jesus Road
Joseph Murrow was a Southern Baptist Missionary who spent much of his life working among the American Indians of Oklahoma, bringing Christianity to people throughout Oklahoma and Indian Territory and the State of Oklahoma. Murrow first came to Indian Territory … Continue reading
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Tagged Bacone College, Christianity, Missionaries, native-americans
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Charles Journeycake and Indian University (Bacone College)
Charles Journeycake, Chief of the Delawares, a founding Trustee of Indian University, was born in1817. His mother, Sally Journeycake, converted Charles to Christianity; he was baptized in 1833. Charles began preaching to the Delawares and other Indian tribes of Kansas … Continue reading
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Behold, The Handmaid of the Lord
Never has there been a more pure and holy place, one marked by God’s love and will. It is a wilderness of utter security, warmth, and peace, an environment of darkness, stillness of time, space, and consciousness. There, in the … Continue reading
The Great Commission and the Discovery of America
Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Americans and Europeans, after they had come to know the variety of indigenous tribes of North America, were perplexed by the question of their origins. The seventeenth-century Puritan clergyman Roger Williams argued that the Indians had remarkable … Continue reading
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Tagged christopher-columbus, columbus, Great Commission, history, Missionaries, spain, travel, vikings
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The American Plutarch 