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Remembering the Gettysburg Address

Posted on November 9, 2024 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

As you know, Lincoln was our first Republican president and served during the entire course of the Civil War. The war ended on April 9, 1865. Lincoln fell to an assassin’s bullet in Ford’s Theatre 5 days later.

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Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death?

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Kings and others have used the Bible and assumptions based upon narratives in it to support the divine right of monarchs, but their arguments were weak. History is largely the story of governments coming and going, kings and rulers rising and falling. It is a rather bleak narrative and is not complimentary to humanity. It begs the question, “Does the Bible address human government?”

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