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James M. Patterson
James M. Patterson is visiting professor of political science at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
American Nehemiads
When asked about Pope Francis’s call to America for a welcoming immigration policy, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) perhaps unwittingly invoked a biblical trope used countless times in American Protestant churches. I call it the “American Nehemiad.”
The book of Nehemiah is political.
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