Twelve years ago, believing that God called him to Jacksonville, Mr. Weems founded the evangelical, nondenominational Celebration Church.
Some gun-control advocates are more optimistic than they were three years ago, believing that Americans' building revulsion at mass shootings has emboldened members of Congress to resist the pressure of the N.R.A.
Tell that to seniors who might have believed that decades ago, but now face the reality of having to choose between medicine or food.
More than a hundred years ago, Andrew Jackson also believed that bestowing power and responsibility upon a single bank was the cause of inflation and other perceived evils.
It was hard to believe that moments ago, deep in the woods, we had watched a wild goat give birth right before our eyes.
Thirty years ago, experts believed that Slavic nations and Communist regimes could never become democratic.
Sixty years ago, scientists believed that schizophrenia was caused by emotional conflict with the patient's parents.
"Until about four or five years ago, we believed that fluid intelligence is immutable in adulthood," Hawkins told me.
Thirty years ago, James Conant and Robert Oppenheimer believed that superbombs with multimegaton yields were not only immoral but militarily uninteresting.
