American’s Faith Minute

Nelson Mandela was awarded the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia, July 4, 1993. He spoke: “The Liberty Bell is a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 4, 1993) More

Noted religious critic and anti-theist Christopher Hitchens admitted in his work Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates (2007): “Of course, those secularists like myself who like to cite this Treaty must concede that its conciliatory language was part of America’s attempt to come to terms with Barbary demands” More

Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote de La Mancha (1605): “They put a chain on me … I passed my life in that bano with several other(s) … marked out as held to ransom … We suffered from hunger and scanty clothing … Nothing distressed us so much as … seeing … unheard of cruelties my master inflicted upon the […]

Immediately after Jefferson became President in 1801, Barbary pirates demanded $225,000, plus an annual tribute of $25,000. When Jefferson refused, the Pasha (Lord) of Tripoli declared war — the first war the U.S. was in after becoming a nation. Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to the Mediterranean to protect American shipping. More

Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 12, 1943: “In every battalion, and in every ship’s crew, you will find every kind of American citizen representing every occupation, every section, every origin, every religion, and every political viewpoint. Ask them what they are fighting for, and every one of them will say, ‘I am fighting for MY […]

John Quincy Adams wrote in an Executive Order, July 11, 1826: “A coincidence … so wonderful gives confidence … that the patriotic efforts of these … men were Heaven directed, and furnishes a new … hope that the prosperity of these States is under the special protection of a kind Providence.” More

Sam Adams stated 1776: “We have fled from the political Sodom; let us not look back … We have this day restored the Sovereign, to whom alone men ought to be obedient … He reigns in Heaven, and … from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come.”  More

Ronald Reagan stated 1961: “In this country of ours took place THE GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD’S HISTORY — Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another … Here for THE FIRST TIME in all the THOUSANDS OF YEARS of man’s relation to man … the founding fathers established the […]

LISTEN Download as PDF … John Langdon was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1741 and grew up as a member of the North Congregational Church, where his distant relative, future Harvard President Rev. Samuel Langdon was pastor from 1747-1774. Other notable individuals who had worshiped at the North […]

“These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation …”-U.S. Supreme Court, 1891; President Truman wrote August 28, 1947: “This is a Christian Nation. More than a half century ago that declaration was written into the […]

Calvin Coolidge stated: “In its main feature the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document … Unless the faith of the American in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish.” More

Patrick Henry spoke to the Second Virginia Convention, which was meeting in Richmond’s St. John’s Church: “I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery … I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past … Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss …” More

Genesis 18:19 records one of the reasons God chose Abraham: “For I know him (Abraham), that he will teach his children … (to) keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment.” Deuteronomy 4:9: “Teach them to your children and grandchildren.” More

To celebrate this victory of Republican abolition policies over the Democrat pro-slavery policies is “Juneteenth,” the day Union Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 from his headquarters in Galveston, Texas, June 19, 1865, announcing: “The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from […]

The web of alliances that Britain and France had with other countries entangled much of the world in war. Britain’s allies included Prussia, Hanover, Hesse, Brunswick, Schaumberg, Portugal, and Iroquois. France’s allies included Austria, Russia, Sweden, Saxony, Spain and India’s Mughal Empire. It is considered to be the first […]

Commander-in-Chief George Washington appointed Lafayette as a Major General in the Continental Army. He insisted on serving without pay, covering all his own expenses. Lafayette endured the freezing winter at Valley Forge, 1777-1778. He was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777. He fought in the: Battle of […]

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher purchased the chains that held abolitionist John Brown in prison, even dragging them across the platform and stomping on them as he preached against slavery. He held simulated auctions in which his congregation donated money to buy freedom for real slaves. From 1854 to 1858, Henry Ward […]

Bryant added: “Using clear precedent, poetic language, and appeals to morality, Francis Scott Key argued that the hundreds of African captives found aboard the Antelope should be returned to Africa and freedom. United States law demanded it, he said. The law of nations demanded it, he said. Even the law of nature demanded it. Key […]

President Franklin Roosevelt stated JUNE 6, 1944: “My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation … I ask you to join with me in prayer: Almighty God, Our sons, pride of […]

Flag Day, June 14, 1954, President Eisenhower stated: “From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.” More

Theodore Roosevelt stated October 24, 1903: “In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country.” More

October 1784, Bernardo de Gálvez was made Governor of Cuba, Louisiana and the Floridas. As a gesture of goodwill he released all American sailors who were imprisoned for smuggling.More

“Communism …  seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings.” More

Inscribed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is the phrase: “HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD.” Since 1921, it has been the tradition for Presidents to lay a wreath on the Tomb, which is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. More

General Omar Bradley stated in an Armistice Day speech, November 10, 1948: “To ignore the danger of aggression is simply to invite it … We shall doom our children to a struggle that may take their lives … Unless free peoples stand boldly and united against the forces of aggression, they may fall wretchedly, one by one, into […]

Lincoln stated “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” More

Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul to Algiers and France, wrote in Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe, Resulting from the Necessity and Propriety of a General Revolution in the Principle of Government (1792, 1956, p. 46): “The foundation of everything is … that the people will form an equal representative […]

Kidnapped Englishman Francis Knight wrote: “I arrived in Algiers, that city fatal to all Christians and the butchery of mankind.”   More

George Washington’s tomb is engraved with John 11:25, where Jesus told Martha: “I am the Resurrection and the Life; sayeth the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” More

On the Jewish Feast of Passover, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, around 30-33 AD, Jesus was crucified as the “Lamb of God.” The Apostle Paul wrote: “For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” (I Corinthians 5:7) The lamb is considered the most innocent of animals. The Gospel of John recorded when John the […]