Posts Tagged ‘Christianity in America’
July 8, 1835: The Day a Judge, the Liberty Bell and the Founding Era Ended
One night, a weary stranger sought refuge in a rural tavern. Exhausted and hungry, he longed for solitude but soon realized he had interrupted a heated debate on the “merits…
Read More“God Helps Those Who Helps Themselves”: The Christianity of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin’s Christianity is complex, to say the least. According to modern historians, Franklin was a scientist, patriot, politician, diplomat… and deist. He once wrote that his skepticism of Christianity…
Read MoreAlexis de Tocqueville: The French Man Who Saw America’s Past, Present and Future
“[It’s] the most comprehensive and penetrating analysis of the relationship between character and society in America that has ever been written.” That’s how one historian described Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy…
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