Downsizing Super Tuesday

How did yesterday’s Super Tuesday compare with those in the recent past? According to the Wall Street Journal's Jeffry Bartash, this year’s election event was a less-than-super version of what it used to be. See his short piece for some historical perspective on what we’ve come to know as Super Tuesday. Here’s a snippet:

The downsizing of Super Tuesday is a direct result of party efforts to restore order to a process that had grown chaotic. States have been constantly moving up their primaries to gain more influence in the choice of the next presidential candidate, a trend that began in the 1980s and accelerated over the past two decades ...

"Moravians and the American Revolution"

In general terms, the Moravian experience during the American Revolution is pretty well known. But as historians consider the specifics of various congregations, different Moravian leaders, as well as the varying degrees of revolutionary sentiments among North American “patriots,” the complexities become apparent. (I have been researching the contours of Moravian pacifism for about a year now, approaching the subject from a theological approach.) Recently, Scott Gordon (Lehigh University) gave a wonderful lecture on “Moravians and the American Revolution.” Gordon’s lecture was well-researched, nuanced and provided a specific window into Moravian experiences from three difference congregational perspectives. Paul Peucker, Moravian archivist in Bethlehem (PA), has posted a podcast of the lecture and you can give it a listen here.