American History

Jonathan Edwards & Smallpox: Lessons from Edwards’s Fatal Experiment

Megan Taylor
Dec 27, 2020
Editor's note: In May 2020 Place for Truth published the article below from Megan Taylor. Judging from its number of shares it ministered to many people. Now, with vaccines for Covid-19 being distributed I thought that it might be helpful to republish a very fine piece. I am sure it will serve the...

Francis James Grimké – Through a Pandemic and Social Unrest

Simonetta Carr
Sep 22, 2020
Francis James Grimké – Through a Pandemic and Social Unrest We are not the first generation who must deal with a pandemic and racial unrest at the same time. The Spanish flu of 1918 hit America at a time when racial segregation and lynching of blacks were commonplace and largely ignored by the...

The Gospel Matters

Jeffrey Stivason
Jun 17, 2020
Let me begin with an affirmation. The Gospel Matters. Some will immediately accuse me of being antagonistic. After all, Stan Wischnowski ran a headline that read “Buildings Matter” and he found himself without a job. [1] But I am not an antagonist. I am a minister of the Gospel. Others will ask, “...

Historical Collections of the Past Podcast

Jonathan Master
Jun 1, 2020
Historical Collections of the Past A socially-distanced Caleb Cangelosi joins Jonathan and James via Zoom. Caleb is the senior pastor at Pear Orchard Presbyterian Church in Ridgeland, MS, and the founder of Log College Press—the topic of our conversation today. Log College Press is a publishing...

Time on Our Hands: Jonathan Edwards on the Preciousness of Time

Megan Taylor
May 30, 2020
Editor's note : In a previous post , Megan Taylor introduced us to the great American theologian Jonathan Edwards. She directed us to consider the Small Pox vaccination which ended his life. In this post. Megan once again enlists the great theologian, this time as a guide for us in our use of time...

The New Abolition

Matthew Tuininga
Sep 2, 2016
Gary Dorrien. The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 647 pages. $45.00. The New Abolition is a sobering read. The story of the black church and its struggle against oppression is not well-known by most white evangelical Christians...

The New Abolition

Matthew Tuininga
Sep 2, 2016
Gary Dorrien. The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 647 pages. $45.00. The New Abolition is a sobering read. The story of the black church and its struggle against oppression is not well-known by most white evangelical Christians...

Race and the American Church - Part V

Otis W. Pickett
Jul 9, 2015
Before starting down the road of narrative history, we have to understand a few things. First, if you have not already done so, please read my first four posts about the heart and experiences God has given me, how He provided me with experiences and studies that have allowed me to speak into this...

Race and the American Church - Part V

Otis W. Pickett
Jul 9, 2015
Before starting down the road of narrative history, we have to understand a few things. First, if you have not already done so, please read my first four posts about the heart and experiences God has given me, how He provided me with experiences and studies that have allowed me to speak into this...

Race and the American Church - Part IV

Otis W. Pickett
Jun 22, 2015
If you haven't already, please read the first three pieces to this series on my personal journey towards understanding Race and the American church (the first can be found here , the second here , and third here ). It is my hope that when you read the latter part of this series (Parts V-VII on the...