Topics include christian leader henry lord beecher, prohibition, and the 18th amendment, and the u. S. Supreme court case roe v wade. Bob Jones University hosted this event. It is an hour and a half. Well, good evening, and welcome to bob Jones University. And the series of the first of three forms on bouncing piety balancing piety and pragmatism, evangelical and politics. We appreciate you being with us this evening. If we could, lets begin our program of the word of prayer. Heavenly father, we do thank you for the opportunity that we have here at bob Jones University to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. We do pray for our nation. We pray for our elected leaders. We pray for president obama particularly, as he leads this nation, that you might grant him wisdom, and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions that he makes. We think of the tragedies that have happened recently, attacks on the wellbei
Topics include christian leader henry lord beecher, prohibition, and the 18th amendment, and the u. S. Supreme court case roe v wade. Bob Jones University hosted this event. It is an hour and a half. Well, good evening, and welcome to bob Jones University. And the series of the first of three forms on bouncing piety balancing piety and pragmatism, evangelical and politics. We appreciate you being with us this evening. If we could, lets begin our program of the word of prayer. Heavenly father, we do thank you for the opportunity that we have here at bob Jones University to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. We do pray for our nation. We pray for our elected leaders. We pray for president obama particularly, as he leads this nation, that you might grant him wisdom, and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions that he makes. We think of the tragedies that have happened recently, attacks on the wellbei
U. S. Supreme court case roe v wade. Bob Jones University hosted this event. It is an hour and a half. Gary weier well, good evening, and welcome to bob Jones University and the series of the first of three forms on balancing piety and pragmatism, evangelical and politics. We appreciate you being with us this evening. If we could, lets begin our program tonight with a word of prayer. Heavenly father, we do thank you for the opportunity that we have here at bob Jones University to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. We do pray for our nation. We pray for our elected leaders. We pray for president obama particularly, as he leads this nation, that you might grant him wisdom, and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions that he makes. We think of the tragedies that have happened recently, attacks on the wellbeing and even life of many citizens. We pray that you protect the life. And we pray that those o
Was animatedly whispering and pointing because there had been a celebrity sighting. Foner, of course. Doing,asked what you are i got a modest, checking things out about the underground railroad. Now of course, we have his magnificent book, gateway to freedom, about the underground railroad. You tell your readers of the story of the underground railroad, it is like a jigsaw puzzle with many pieces missing. Usually historians think of a question and go in search of documents to answer that question, but sometimes we find extraordinary documents and then left questions emerge from those documents. Why dont you tell us about the documents you found and the questions that it raised for you . Eric is this on . First of all, thank you to the museum for inviting me here. Thank you to martha for interrogating me. It is like being back in my oral exams from years ago. Yes, i have written a good number of books. Do you choosew what to write about . There is somet historical question that interest
Janet was referring to, you know, the moral injury, people pay more and more attention to that, and lets note pretend this only exists on the military side of the equation. Theres trama and disability in the world as well. To me, you might disagree, but, to me, its the commonality here is once something happens in your life, whether its a single event or accumulation of things, but theres some its not just trauma, but something happens that just rattles you down to the bones. What do you do then . Succumb to it or busy trying to recover. Ptsd, civilian or military, one of the guys said, you know, life comes with trauma, and trauma necessarily comes from a sense of recovery. Thats what we do, and to get back to the idea to be careful here because of the notion of perpetuating the stereotype of the imroaken soldier. Thats there are broken soldiers from these wars. Does not mean they are forever broken. Probably most of them, throughout history, will not be, but that does not mean you dis