Steve Beard
Editor at Good News Magazine
Religion and pop culture journalist. Roller derby photographer. Dad. Rockabilly and tiki aficionado.
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2 months ago |
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Steve Beard
On Sept 30, 1938, in the Munich Betrayal (Mnichovská zrada in Czech), British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier signed an agreement with Adolf Hitler allowing Hitler to take the Sudetenland, a Germanic part of western Czechoslovakia. The Czechs and Slovaks were not represented at the meeting, and the new agreement broke previous mutual defense agreements among the UK, France, and Czechoslovakia.
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2 months ago |
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer
Earlier this month I was able to chat with Jerome Copulsky, research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, on his new book American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order. The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned.
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2 months ago |
juicyecumenism.com | Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer
The American movement for civil rights across 100 years, from the Civil War through the 1960s, is one of the greatest stories of humanity. Certainly, it is defining for America. And it helped universalize American values of human equality. Those values come from Christian anthropology.
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2 months ago |
juicyecumenism.com | Davison Drumm |Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley
[Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of brief reflections authored by current and past interns about their experience at the Institute on Religion & Democracy. For more information about IRD’s internship program, click here.]Among my goals through participation in the Falls Church Fellows program and internship at the IRD has been to learn more about the Reformed Protestant denominations.
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2 months ago |
juicyecumenism.com | Steve Beard |Rick Plasterer |Mark Tooley |Davison Drumm
While sifting through obscure Spanish colonial records, it was discovered a few years ago that the very first St. Patrick’s Day parade was not conducted in Boston, Chicago, nor New York City. Instead, the Irish feast day was celebrated in modern day St. Augustine, Florida, in 1601. “They processed through the streets of St. Augustine, and the cannon fired from the fort,” said Prof. J. Michael Francis of the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg, who discovered the document.
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https://t.co/7gBKDJBbql My column on the Dropkick Murphys album cover design, a fitting Irish-Catholic tribute to Woody Guthrie – a man not known for his church attendance but who viewed Jesus Christ as a hero. Loaded with religious symbolism. #dropkickmurphys https://t.co/Wr6wzEuh4x
Watching an NCIS rerun with @PauleyP wearing a @PsychWardSirens t-shirt triggered mega fond memories of interviewing her 15 years ago. Never expected to be a @HouRollerDerby photographer and shoot the Sirens. Loved the swirling notions of her mind. Kind and unpretentious. https://t.co/RvdQnV11TM
God bless those who create safe spaces for at-risk kids, as well as offer treatment for heroin addicts. What a story. 'Spiritual first responders' turn to boxing and the Bible as epidemics collide - ABC News - https://t.co/15NQ9ClsRO via @ABC
