The American Soul: America's Christian Heritage
A deeper dive into the Christian history and heritage of America.
The American Soul: America's Christian Heritage
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Washington Irving’s The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow isn’t just a scary story, it’s a portrait of how a place can shape the mind. I’m Jesse Cope, and for a couple episodes I’m taking a break from our normal approach to do an October reading of Washington Irving’s classic American gh...
Firsthand Portraits Of Christopher Columbus
Columbus gets talked about like everyone already knows the whole story, but most of what we hear is filtered through modern politics rather than firsthand history. We take a different approach and read descriptions of Christopher Columbus from ...
The Bible As A School Book
A law can mandate lessons about communism’s atrocities, but it can’t answer a deeper question: what kind of people are our schools forming when Scripture is absent? We start with Deuteronomy’s charge to place God’s words in daily life and teach...
Why Benjamin Rush Wanted The Bible Taught In Classrooms
Florida passed a law requiring schools to teach the history and atrocities of communism and that sparks a bigger question we can’t dodge: who decides what “truth” looks like in a classroom, and what happens when an education system quietly remo...
Prayer That Held The Constitution Together
Benjamin Franklin didn’t just debate at the Constitutional Convention, he called the room to its knees. When weeks of argument produced more heat than progress, Franklin warned that human wisdom was failing and asked why the delegates had not “...