The American Soul: America's Christian Heritage
A deeper dive into the Christian history and heritage of America.
Episodes
9 episodes
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 “...
Are You Building A Home Or Tearing It Down
If you’ve ever felt like modern marriage advice is built to make you feel good instead of helping you get better, we’re going back to a standard that doesn’t bend. We start with 2 Timothy’s warning about “itching ears,” then ask a hard question...
Why A Nation Rises Or Falls With Marriage
A single image can cut through your excuses. I start with a photo tied to the Holodomor, the Stalin-era famine that shows what happens when evil ideologies like communism are tolerated and truth is traded for comfort. It’s a sobering reminder t...
Christian Roots Of American Education
America didn’t stumble into Christian language in education by accident. When you read the founding purposes of early colleges and universities, you find direct, unapologetic goals: train ministers, form character, teach “good letters and manne...
How Ivy League Schools Began With Christ At The Center
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth. These names get treated like symbols of modern prestige, but their original mission statements read like something else entirely: Christian formation, biblical truth, and the training ...
Harvard’s 1642 Rules And The Bible-First Model Of American Schooling
“Values neutral” education sounds fair, modern, and safe, but we think it’s a comforting myth. We take a hard look at early American education and argue that every classroom, policy, and lesson plan points students toward a moral foundation, wh...