Excerpt from Chapter 27 of "The Sword of the Lord" by Andrew Himes. -- In the 21^st century, it‚Äôs almost impossible for people in the South or anywhere else to maintain ideas about race, religion, or politics that we inherited without questioning in the 19^th or 20^th centuries.

Guest blog by Sharon Autenrieth - I‚Äôm currently reading a book called The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family by Andrew Himes.   I snagged the opportunity to read it for review before publication, and I am loving it.  Ameri

I'm taking a little detour from my typical post tonight in order to publish this moving poem by a talented and eloquent writer. David Plumb's work is shaped by his own experience as a naval officer during the Vietnam War and by his profound empathy for those whose names are "whispered in the stars. Jessica, Daniel, Jeffrey, Patrick" -- names that "echo in blood, in guns, in storms."

Thank you, David, for reminding us who they are, and who we are as well.

Amy Riley posted this interview on March 24, on her blog My Friend Amy. The interview was conducted as an email exchange, and was posted on the same day Amy posted her review of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family.

An amazing book I read recently was Worshipping the Myths of World War II, written by Edward Wood, a combat veteran of World War II. Wood was an 18-year-old thrown into battle in France after D-Day in June of 1944 with virtually no military training.