George Harrell

Humanities teacher with @KeplerEducation, Executive Director of @BuchananForum

[George Harrell @geharrell]

This was a really enjoyable conversation. Great to hear the British perspective. @JusBrierley you might appreciate that I gave a lecture over a year ago for The George Buchanan Forum discussing this for an American context: “Re-enchanting History in an Age of Woke Ideologies and Christian Nationalisms”

https://t.co/RMtcvVK8cH

[George Harrell @geharrell]

@More_Christ_ @PaulVanderKlay I think this is why we keep trying to reinvent ourselves as American Inklings, as though we could just clone that meaning in a completely different regional context.

[George Harrell @geharrell]

This was such an excellent conversation between Marcas @More_Christ_, @PaulVanderKlay, and Heather Pollington on the need for holy places and people, as well as the inevitable but inadequate secular versions that will emerge when the sacred ones are missing.

[George Harrell @geharrell]

I’m trying to do my part to help provide Americans with an imaginative vision for becoming natives, and its a bit of a unique problem because we can’t simply import the European experience of place over here, but without it we feel untethered. I remember someone decrying that they couldn’t sit atop a Bronze Age hill-fort like Martin Shaw to have a spiritual encounter, and it’s such a tragedy that Americans are so historically divorced from their own location that they would have no idea that equally ancient hill forts exist *all* over the United States.

[George Harrell @geharrell]

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[George Harrell @geharrell]

One of the issues contributing to this confusion is that people are not differentiating between church attendance and church membership. @PaulVanderKlay

[George Harrell @geharrell]

Another thing I wish people would stop claiming is that church membership or adherence in colonial America was very low.

This claim almost always relies on the outdated and inaccurate work by Finke and Stark, and whichever way you define it or cut the numbers, the majority of white Americans regularly attended church in 1776 and the percentage was higher than it ever has been since then.

[George Harrell @geharrell]

@Sophiologist_ So true. I’m very jealous of you.

[George Harrell @geharrell]

@Sophiologist_ Oh wow. Are you actually present for that?

I would love to hear Andrew Louth in person. He’s such a phenomenal scholar.

[George Harrell @geharrell]

This never ceases to make me sad.

[Roland Gunn 🇺🇸 @RolandGunnTN]

Andrew Lytle notes that the heights of the Cumberland Mountains were home to great flocks of “Cumberland Parrots” at the time of settlement. Another name for “Louisiana” subspecies of the Carolina Parakeet, sadly extinct. Imagine…

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“As a writer of faith living in a secular age, Berry’s poems bridge the gap between our modern, secular experience of time and older views of time, such as Augustine’s, that are more imbued with the sacred.” —Anne Ryan

https://t.co/1XBDS7BCP4

[George Harrell @geharrell]

@AaronIrber Just read this for the first time this past month. Wow.

[George Harrell @geharrell]

@Chirurgic @Hieraaetus Well, I for one would have been happy with "proto-historic."

[George Harrell @geharrell]

@Chirurgic @Hieraaetus Yes. The issue would be that we have texts from people living there prior to and geographically overlapping with Thule Inuit.

[George Harrell @geharrell]

@Hieraaetus These academics also referred to the Thule as “indigenous,” which just demonstrates what a meaningless, political term it is.

[Medieval World: Culture & Conflict @MedievalWorldCC]

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[George Harrell @geharrell]

@PresbyInn I remember spending maybe eight hours downloading the RTR mod in 2006 to make the game even *more* realistic. Lol