While the Declaration of Independence includes references to the Creator and the Supreme Judge of the Universe, the Constitution is utterly devoid of any mention of God or the supernatural. Those who want to put as much distance as they can between the United States and her spiritual heritage use that absence to justify insisting […]
When you take an inventory of all the individuals who have earned a prominent position in our nation’s history, it’s inevitable that you find in each one of them a character flaw of some sort. George Washington is the father of our country, yet he was a slaveowner. John Witherspoon was a powerful preacher, the […]
John Witherspoon was President of the College of New Jersey from 1768 – 1794.1 During his tenure as President, the College of New Jersey (now known as Princeton) would require their students to focus on their relationship with Christ as a crucial part of their daily routine… Every student shall attend worship in the college […]
When it comes to the topic of our nation’s Christian heritage, you have two main schools of thought: The liberal mindset that insists our forefathers viewed religion as something to be negotiated as an administrative duty The Conservative Christian platform that maintains an aggressive acknowledgement and pursuit of God’s Assistance characterized the collective perspective of […]
The Separation of Church and State is a phrase often used by people who want to insist that Christianity had no real role in our nation’s founding – cerntainly nothing that had any significant influence on those that articulated our cause, created our Constitution and fought the battles that culminated in the surrender of Great […]
During the Revolutionary War, Congress issued sixteen proclamations calling for a National Day of Prayer, Fasting and Humiliation. Take a look at the table below. You can click on the “page one | page two” links in the “Journals of the Continental Congress (1774 – 1875)” column to see the image of the text as […]
Dissenting Clergy Peter Oliver was a lawyer and by the time of the Revolution had risen to the position of chief justice of the Superior Court in Massachusetts. He was incredibily wealthy, served in a variety of community and church positions and was fiercely loyal to the crown. His perspective on the Revolutionary War was […]
