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Christian Missionaries–Books to Read
I am a historian, and one of my favorite topics to write on is the Christian missionary experience in America.I have just reissued on Amazon a book about Baptist missionaries in America, particularly in Oklahoma: “Marking the Jesus Road: Bacone … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Biography, books, Christianity, Great Commission
Tagged Bacone College, bible, books, catholics, Christianity, faith, history, Jesus, Missionaries, Protestants
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Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: An American Character
Philip Marlowe, as presented in Raymond Chandler’s novels, especially The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and Farewell, My Lovely, presents a distinctly American character.Marlow has a personal moral code. It does not seem to be based on anything—authority, scripture, law—besides … Continue reading
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Tagged book-reviews, books, crime-novels, mysteries
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Robert Hamilton, Baptist Missionary, and the Jesus Road
Robert Hamilton, a friend and associate of Mary P. Jayne and Joseph S. Murrow, was one of the first missionaries sent by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to western Oklahoma; Hamilton worked with the Cheyenne and Arapaho people from … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, baptists, bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, jesus-road, Missionaries
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Mary P. Jayne, Baptist Missionary, and the Jesus Road
Mary P. Jayne was long-time Baptist missionary to the American Indians, particularly the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Pawnee. She dedicated her life to directing American Indians, particularly in Oklahoma, along the Jesus Road. Jayne grew up in Iowa in the Baptist … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, baptists, books, Christianity, jesus-road, Missionaries
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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
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Tagged books, history, Higher Education, Bacone College, Missionaries, American Indians
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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
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Tagged anselm, Christianity, god, history, philosophy, Piety, Religion, Science, thomas-aquinas
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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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Captain John Smith’s New England
If anyone in American history has the honor of being called the discoverer of New England, it is Captain John Smith. That’s right—John Smith, one of the founders of Jamestown, the savior of the infant colony of the Virginia Company, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, genealogy, history, pilgrims, travel
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New England Missionaries and the American Indians
We have been broken up and moved six times. We have been despoiled of our property. We thought when we moved across Missouri River and had paid for our home in Kansas we were safe, but in a few years … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, bible, Christianity, faith, god, Jesus, new-england-missionaries
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The American Plutarch 