Hosts that live at 10 00 a. M. Eastern here on into. Have a seat. There are seats on the wings of the room for people who need a place to sit. Youre welcome to stand up course. Its great to welcome everyone to this evening of conversation and discussion about our christian witness in the 21st century. And the occasion is of course, the new book on the benedict option. Before i introduce our eminent speaker i want to thank the cosponsors of this event. My name is rusty and one of the sponsors is first things magazine that i edit. The american conservative and i would like to thank those of us that tried to think about how to move forward in very Tumultuous Times of deep change not just in our political culture but also there is a sort of spiritual earthquake abroad in the west in our society and we are trained to think about what that means and how to live faithfully in the current context and so the file magazinfile magazine is ons chair and the american conservative i believe is on ev
That document describes a come and save compromise emancipation plan, his last ever to get slaveholding border states to sell their slaves to the federal government so that they could be out of that is this. When he rejected that, he began to discuss the process of the emancipation proclamation. We believe, as ron white points out, that pastor girlys relationship with mr. Lincoln helped mr. Lincoln develop a higher understanding of his relationship with his god and allowed him to think through clearly from a religious perspective, how vehement patient proclamation can best be described and encompassed. With that, we are ready to begin the program. I would like to introduce edna green medford. History professor and chairperson at howard university. Shields degrees from Hampton Institute and the university of illinois and her phd is in history from the university of maryland. Dr. Medford specializes in 19 country United States history and teaches courses on the jacksonian era and civil w
In washington, d. C. , a panel of scholars talks about the role the Catholic Church played in educating, organizing, and advocating for immigrant laborers from the mid1800s to the 1940s. According to the census bureau, between 1850 in 1930, before an born population in the United States rose from 2. 2 million to 14. 2 million, and many of these immigrants were catholics from europe. The 90 Minute Program is part of a conference. Welcome to our final session. Just tutors myself, my name is maria zynga i am in archivist at the met american cap History Museum and a historian. I and elated to be here with you on this particular panel. This panel is concerned with immigration and labor specifically. This is a next really important topic, as most people who migrate to the United States come here to work. That causes all sorts of thorny issues as we are going to see. Just a couple of announcements before i introduce our speakers. We have a couple of books i want to point out. Go to the worker
Fall is finally in the air. I hope youre feel the same thing wherever you might be this morning. Were grateful to have your company here at new day, im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor black well. Always great to have you here, martin. President trumps nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sets up a tight timeline for republicans. Who are insisting that they fill the seat before the november 3rd election. Cnns Sarah Westwood joins us now from the white house. With the election so close, the timing has to be considered crucial. Yeah. Good morning, martin and christi. Theres simply no room for error for Senate Republicans who hope to get it done for the white house before election day. Theyre setting themselves up to do this in a little over a month. Lindsey graham quickly released a tentative schedule for that confirmation process yesterday after the president unveiled Amy Coney Barrett to fill that vacancy. They want to do it quickly. Three or four days of h
Latterday saints traversed hundreds of miles across across the state despite a government extermination threat issued by the governor. Woods has been a professor of Church History and doctrine at Brigham Young University Since 1998. He specializes in latterday saint immigration studies. And is the editor of saints by the sea saints by the sea website which documents lds maritime immigration in america in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hes editor and compiler of the mormon immigration index which was released in 2000 in his widely used by researchers. Woods has authored and coauthored more than a dozen books and scores of articles on lds history and as collaborated collaborated on several documentary films. The most recent being the saints of tonga a century of island faith, which is a companion work to his 2019 book. He is what lectured extensively at conferences universities churches and libraries and we are thrilled to have him back at here in kansas city at the central library.