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Perhaps the steepest challenge any of us face is being able to look at the world from someone else's point of view. So when I meet people who have beliefs I consider inane or reprehensible, my first instinct is to judge, condemn, and reject them, and then to explain exactly how they are wrong because I am sure if they only use a little common sense they will see the world my way. Over the past years of writing my book, I learned that the world is richer and more interesting if I begin by asking honest, positive questions, and then listen intently so I can learn from others.

Excerpt from Chapter 27 of "The Sword of the Lord" by Andrew Himes. -- In the 21^st century, it’s 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.

(Excerpt from Chapter 27 of The Sword of the Lord.) A century ago, in some sense the original Christian fundamentalists were asking a fundamental question. The core impulse that gave rise to fundamentalism was a healthy one: rediscover and cherish the essence of Christianity. In 1909, A. C. Dixon and R. A.