HeyJaredDavid T, Religion prof at MC
Sharing what I have been privileged to learn as a religion and history professor at a small liberal arts college in a small town in Appalachian Ohio
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Stop Hating on “Kumbaya,” and “De Colores,” and “Up with People!” (opens the original)
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During the first Christmas season of this Substack’s existence, I wrote a post entitled “Stop Hating on the Little Drummer Boy.” It became my most viewed post up to that point (still not very many views, but enough to keep me going). I reposted it the following year, and followed up with a sequel.Thanks for rea
This Toothbrush (opens the original)
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My wife Jill and I just returned from a cross-country driving trip. We put almost 6000 miles on our car, traveling for over a month, across nine states. We visited friends and family, ate spicy food, browsed museums, hiked in national parks, rode the cable car in San Francisco, saw the stars in the sidewalks on Hollywood Boulevard and toured the tar pits of La Brea, dipped our feet in the Pacific Ocean in Encinitas, and took the long way home.Thanks for reading David T, Religion prof at MC! Subs
Render unto Caesar? (opens the original)
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In honor of the Fourth of July, I am republishing my post from two years ago, which itself is about experiences from several years earlier. The surge of Christian nationalism in its current form is a new thing, but it raises the question of loyalty to God versus loyalty to Caesar, which is as old as the gospel itself, and which continues to be relevant on this 250th anniversary of American independence.One Sunday years ago, when I lived in another town and taught at another college, I walked int
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