douglas carl abrams

@dcarlabrams

amo mi iglesia bilingüe religious & cultural history/love France, Africa, & classic film/ Christian worldview

Greenville, SC

Joined January 2017

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douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jun 9

"Abrams’ thought-provoking book offers a timely, critical reassessment of Protestant fundamentalism’s founding generation” (back cover) --Darren Dochuk University of Notre Dame

ddouglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jun 4

pleased that this book has a new "home" bloomsbury.com

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douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 22

"Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?" Hamlet implores Polonius to be merciful

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · 5 h

Tour de France, please keep the Montmartre climb as part of the final day of the Tour!

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · 23 h

Chile in Their Hearts by John Dinges | Book review | The TLS the-tls.com/regular-featur… as a member of a bilingual church, I'm currently interested in reading about Latin American popular movements--this one in Chile and Peron in Argentina, outside of my American/European focus

dcarlabrams's tweet card. In 1972, the French-Greek film-maker Costa-Gavras was in Chile to shoot a movie based on a radical Uruguayan group’s real-life kidnapping and killing of a

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 26

Claude Monet’s gardens at Giverny are the stuff of art-history legend. But preserving them is a Sisyphean battle against time, weather and evolution itself. wsj.com/style/design/m… via @WSJ

dcarlabrams's tweet card. The gardens at Giverny are the stuff of art-history legend. But preserving them is a Sisyphean battle against time, weather and evolution itself.

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 26

thanks to Crossgate Church in Seneca for hosting (and feeding) the summer Calvary Presbytery gathering

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 25

Garry Wills, Augustine's Confessions: A Biography is also nice--but I got it from the library!

NNadya Williams@NadyaWilliams81 · Jul 25

One great thing about marrying a fellow nerd is when you really need to look up something in a book you don't think you own, but then you find it on the home library shelf b/c your beloved brought it into the marriage. (For curious minds: it's Peter Brown's Augustine of Hippo)

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 25

Buckley by Sam Tanenhaus | Book review the-tls.com/lives/biograph… the Bach theme music for "Firing LIne" was a nice touch too

dcarlabrams's tweet card. One of the more disappointing episodes in the recent history of political books occurred in 1999, when the long-awaited authorized biography of Ronald Reagan, Dutch, was published. Its author, Edmund...

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 24

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dcarlabrams's tweet card. Did Scheffler’s words resonate so much because of the truth he shared or because he’s the best golfer in the world?

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Barry Strauss@barrystrauss · Jul 23

I'm thrilled to hold a copy of my new book, Jews vs. Rome. Publication date is August 19. Available now for pre-order, amzn.to/3YP0EUr

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douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 23

Agnes Moorehead as the "tragic" Aunt Fanny in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

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Justin Taylor@between2worlds · Jul 22

🧵 We are seeing the passing of a generation of faithful fathers in the Lord . . . R. C. Sproul (1939–2017)

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douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 22

Is Scottie Scheffler Religious? PGA Tour Pro’s Faith essentiallysports.com/golf-news-is-s… via @es_sportsnews

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 21

Irrational exuberance: Alan Greenspan’s call, 20 years later -- Ahead of the Tape wsj.com/articles/irrat… via @WSJ ran across this today when doing some research-- "irrational exuberance" may explain more than we think

dcarlabrams's tweet card. The former Fed chairman’s phrase has since transcended Wall Street, Main Street and even the best-seller list, claiming a place as one of the most iconic in financial markets.

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 20

from Ethan the Ezrahite: Psalm 89:1 "I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations."

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 20

Kenyan police arrest rights activist Mwangi over role in deadly protests reuters.com/world/africa/k…

dcarlabrams's tweet card. Police plan to arraign Boniface Mwangi on suspicion of facilitating "terrorist acts" linked to deadly anti-government protests last month.

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 20

Bookish Diversions: Forget the Paperback?, by @joeljmiller millersbookreview.com/p/bookish-dive…

dcarlabrams's tweet card. Paperbacks in Decline, When Paperbacks Were King, Art and Science of Paper, Goatskin!

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douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 19

"And take upon 's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies" Lear to his youngest daughter before they enter prison

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 18

100 Years Since The Scopes Trial: Evolution, Religion and America’s Classroom Conflicts religionunplugged.com/news/100-years…

dcarlabrams's tweet card. (ANALYSIS) One hundred years ago this month, Americans were transfixed as a Tennessee courtroom hosted challenge to the state’s new law barring “the teaching of the Evolution Theory” in public...

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 17

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dcarlabrams's tweet card. Readers will want to separate the wheat from the tares before they invest their precious hours of summer freedom. Here are book recommendations from TGC’s editors.

douglas carl abrams@dcarlabrams · Jul 17

christianitytoday.com/2025/07/died-j…

dcarlabrams's tweet card. The Southern California preacher wanted to illuminate Scripture with Scripture and separate real Christians from false.