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James Bratt

James Bratt is professor of history emeritus at Calvin College, specializing in American religious history and especially the connections between religion and politics. His most recent book (which he edited and completed for the late John Woolverton) is  “A Christian and a Democrat”: Religion in the Life and Leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Nelson Mandela

The tributes and praise for Nelson Mandela have come pouring in, from every corner of the globe and every segment…
December 7, 2013
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JFK

Everyone 55 or older remembers it—remembers where they were when they heard that President Kennedy had been shot. That the…
November 23, 2013
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What Set It Off?

I’ve been reading some of the flood of books coming out ahead of next year’s centennial of the start of…
October 25, 2013
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Faith and Film

I’m down at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College this weekend for a conference on . . . Billy…
September 27, 2013