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VMI Test Case for the Country

By Forrest L. Marion

In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) removed its statue of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson from its prominent position at the nation’s oldest state-supported four-year military… »

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Plodding Through the “ills of life”

By Forrest L. Marion

Especially in unsettling times, it is helpful for Christians to examine the lives of faithful saints of old, who finished their race well. One brother and father in the faith, today perhaps remembered in Baptist… »

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The “Desert Blooming Like The Rose.”

By Forrest L. Marion

In 21st–century America, it’s difficult to imagine life without the ability to access information at an electronic click or command. But it was not always so. Two centuries ago, outside of New England, many small… »

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The Ministry of ‘Ordinary Means’ and the Kentucky Revivals of 1828

By Forrest L. Marion

In his important 1994 work, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism, 1750-1858, the Rev. Iain H. Murray examined the periods in American church history known as the first and second awakenings.… »

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Promoting Christian Sabbath or Lord’s Day Observance in South Carolina, 1827-1837

By Forrest L. Marion

In the eighteenth century, each of the British North American colonies that later formed the United States of America had statutes that regulated the observance of the Christian Sabbath, or the Lord’s day. The two… »

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An Upper South Perspective on the Christian Sabbath and Civil Liberty, 1825-1837

By Forrest L. Marion

Among the various moral reform and benevolence movements in the Jacksonian Era such as temperance, antislavery, prison reform, and the peace movement, one of the lesser known efforts sought to improve the observance of the… »

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