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  • SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume IV (1950-1970)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owen(Index #11032025 – 11062025) ─────────────────────────────── LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT ───────────────────────────────     This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary.    It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use… Read more

  • SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume III (1930-1950)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10312025 – 11032025) —    Between 1930 and 1950, Americans identified at least twenty distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: marijuana, comic books (intensified), Superman, juvenile delinquency, swing music, zoot suits, pinup girls, bikinis, television, rock and roll’s precursors,… Read more

  • SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS1910-1930A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10302025) —    Between 1910 and 1930, Americans identified at least fifteen distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: jazz music, motion pictures, comic books, radio broadcasting, women’s suffrage, flappers, bobbed hair, makeup, smoking in public, short skirts, the Charleston dance, speakeasies, gangster… Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: 1890-1910By: Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10292025) A Documentary History of American Moral Panic    Between 1890 and 1910, Americans identified at least ten distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: electricity, women on bicycles, portable cameras, ice cream sodas, telephones, automobiles, penny dreadfuls and dime novels, “white slavery,” ragtime music, and the waltz.  … Read more

  • THE CALL OF ABRAM (Genesis 12:1-20)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10202025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note:   Following God without knowing the full plan is terrifying.You don’t get a roadmap. You don’t get a timeline. You don’t even get a destination address.   You get: “Go. I’ll tell you when you get there.”   And somehow, you’re supposed… Read more

  • Babel in Relationships: How Communication Breakdowns Mirror the Tower of Pride (A Blunt Bible Commentary Essay by Emmitt Owens)(Index #10192025-B) ✍️ Author’s Note The Tower of Babel isn’t just about architecture — it’s about communication.And if you’ve ever tried to love someone and found yourself talking circles around the same fight, saying the same words… Read more

  • THE TOWER OF BABEL (Genesis 11:1-9)The Blunt Bible EditionBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10192025) —– ✍️ Author’s Note:   When I was 14, I experienced what linguistic confusion actually feels like.   I walked into a church service where suddenly—within minutes—half the room was speaking languages I couldn’t understand. Overlapping. Loud. Intense.   And I sat there, frozen, completely disoriented.  … Read more

  • Did you catch that? ‘And with your seed after you.’ God’s covenant wasn’t just with Noah. It was with his descendants. As a child I was told it was for all mankind, never realizing: After the Flood, only eight people survived. Noah, his wife, Shem, Ham, Japheth, and their three wives. That’s it. Eight people.… Read more

  • Genesis 5 might seem like the Bible’s most boring chapter—just a genealogy with names, ages, and that phrase “and he died” repeated nine times like a funeral drumbeat. But buried in this list is one of the weirdest details in Scripture: Enoch didn’t die. Everyone else lived 900+ years and still died. Adam? Dead at… Read more

  • I was writing about Cain’s wife when I had this wild realization: If you actually read Genesis 1, God already told us there were other humans—”Male and female created HE THEM” (plural). Then Genesis 2 zooms in on Adam and Eve specifically in the Garden of Eden. So when Cain leaves and “knows his wife”… Read more