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The Radical Declaration: An Enlightened American Idea Kindle Edition

by Byron Williams (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The Radical Declaration offers a timely series of thought provoking essays that challenges the nation to look beyond contemporary political orthodoxies in order to recapture the ideals of the nation’s founding creed. Rev. Williams is one of the leading public theologians in the nation. He is a columnist, author, and the former pastor of the Resurrection Community Church in Berkeley, CA. His weekly column appears in the popular Huffington Post along with selected publications in North Carolina and California. He is host of the NPR-affiliated broadcast The Public Morality and serves as adjunct professor at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B089NZ2NQJ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (June 3, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 3, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 442 KB
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Byron Williams is a columnist, author and adjunct professor. His weekly social/political column appears in the Huffington Post, the Winston Salem Journal and the Bay Area News Group. He is host of the NPR-affiliated broadcast The Public Morality and serves as adjunct professor at Wake Forest University. He is the author of 1963: The Year of Hope and Hostility, which won the 2014 International Book Award for US History. His recent historical novella, “Solitaire: Magda Goebbels: A Banality of Ambition and Evil” is under development with Netflix.

In 2010 and 2011, Williams' work was nationally recognized by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), which nominated him for “Columnist of the Year.” Williams has spoken across the country and appeared on numerous television and radio news programs, including CNN, MSNBC, ABC Radio, Fox News, and National Public Radio.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Our Unique American Experience
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2020
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The Radical Declaration is a timely read of hope for the American ideals of liberty and equality put forth in the Declaration of Independence (the"idea").
Williams brilliantly presents the paradoxes of these two ideals and how they have evolved in our American history and how they are uniquely ours. This book will not only make you think but it will enlighten your thinking!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The American Idea Defined
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2021
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Easy to read and understand the difference between liberty and equality and why our history shows it is difficult for every American to attain and maintain it. Very thought provoking which I thoroughly enjoyed.
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M. Hay
5.0 out of 5 stars A practical “idea” on how to review and rethink our personal position on America’s future
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2020
Have we, as a nation, drifted away from the intent of our founding document, the Declaration of Independence?
Add to the word “radical”...bold. It's a slippery slope when debating what is right behavior/ practice...what's OK, what isn't OK. Have we taken up the practice of picking and choosing our behavior, beliefs and laws. We seemed to be influenced by those who display those behaviors...aggressiveness ,including bullying, condoning illegal practices in the name of fairness.
Author Byron Williams rightly reminds us of the need to not only think things through but to periodically read the Declaration of Independence helping us to refocus on fairness and righteousness. We seem to have become a “sound bite “ society, with so much information available to us daily, hourly we have become overwhelmed with information and choices and, tend to take the easy way out in making our decisions and direction. Social media has certainly not been helpful.
Author Williams does an outstanding job of offering us practical ways to review how and why we can rethink our own issues and thoughts and decide for ourselves if we need to reboot our path or continue down it as is...

The real benefit of Mr.Williams book is...he doesn't tell you what to do or what the answer to life is... he encourages you to think.
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Robert Watson
5.0 out of 5 stars Celebrate our Founding Ideas
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2020
In a time when it is fashionable to demean the lofty ideas upon which America was founded, it is exciting to note the publication of Radical Declaration: An Enlightened American Idea.

Byron Williams pens a tribute to American Ideals such as liberty and equal justice. He does so without trying to co-opt the Founding for any particular political position, and without whitewashing the various paradoxes (such as liberty loving slave owners).

The way the author sees it, those paradoxes of our Founding are not something to ignore, but neither are they something to condemn without context. Most importantly, it is the waning of those paradoxes – as evidenced in the hard fought, increasingly universal application of American Ideals – that we should focus on and celebrate.

Radical Declaration: An Enlightened American Idea is a breath of fresh air, and is highly recommended to all across the political spectrum.
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Master Counsel,Inc.
5.0 out of 5 stars Liberty and equality, the paradox and the tension held within the "idea".
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2020
When I first began reading Byron Williams weekly op-eds, I was so moved by his crisp wisdom, insight and historical understanding, that I pursued a more personal acquaintance. Ironically, I found that he actually lived in our community.

That led to more frequent interactions, followed up by exciting introductions of peers also searching for such scholarly and theologically balanced understanding of the critical documents that govern our land.

With each interaction, each well-authored commentary, not only were we academically and spiritually stretched by Byron's rhetoric but passionately challenged to pursue both liberty and equality, the paradoxical ideas he has so refreshingly reasserted in this brief but powerful work.
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