by Mark Marshall | Apr 15, 2021 | History, Totalitarians, U.S. Politics
Last summer in this series, I noted the history of totalitarians disregarding elections they lost and then rigging elections as soon as possible once they consolidated power so that they would not lose again. Now you might already be wondering if I am going to go...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Corrupt Media, Freedom of Speech, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel, Totalitarians
In the few guilty moments I did waste time online this week, I spent them reading about the possible implications of one or two companies owning the majority of the way most of us interact online—the, well, I won’t use “strangle-hold” but the tight fist control of...
by Mark Marshall | Jan 12, 2021 | Freedom of Speech, History, Totalitarians
You may have noticed in history, or even in the news today, that totalitarians really dislike freedom of speech and make it a top priority to attack and ban it. Take the Nazis, for example – and we’re talking about the real literally literal Nazis that once ruled...
by Mark Marshall | Nov 21, 2020 | Advent, Church Year, Eschatology, History, Totalitarians
The Sunday Next Before Advent has long been one of my favorite Sundays of the church year. First, the name just sounds amusingly Anglican to me. That may say more about me than about the name, but anyway… Of slightly more importance, it heralds...
by Mark Marshall | Nov 17, 2020 | Freedom of Speech, History, Totalitarians, U.S. Politics, Woke Church
Events this past Saturday in Washington D. C. speak volumes about where we are as a country. First, thousands gathered in the capital to support President Trump and to protest the fraudulent election. (That the election was fraudulent has become so obvious I will not...
by Mark Marshall | Oct 19, 2020 | Totalitarians, U.S. Politics
In 2004, Hugo Chavez, El Presidente (And God knows how many other titles. Communists just love titles.) of Venezuela was not pleased with the Supreme Court of Venezuela. For it had the temerity not to rubber stamp all his actions and decrees. Well Hugo wanted a...