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Blinded by the Light

One of the brightest intellects of the positive-mind movement skirted close to Nazi-appeasement — what lessons does that hold today?

Mitch Horowitz
5 min readDec 28, 2019

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Mainline American churches faced a crisis of mission in the 1920s and ’30s when congregants demanded practical help with the problems of life.

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Mitch Horowitz

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"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China

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