American’s Faith Minute

There was rioting, pillaging, and burning of railroad cars, destroying an estimated $80 million worth of property in 27 states. A New York Times editorial, July 9, 1894, called Debs “a lawbreaker at large, an enemy of the human race.” “Debs’ Rebellion” became a national issue when it interrupted the trains delivering mail. […]

ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, 1935: “I am for socialism … I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.” President Grover Cleveland, December 2, 1895: “Reported massacres of Christians in Armenia … fanatic hostility to Christian […]

As Rome exhibited weakness, it experienced terrorist attacks. Attila the Hun, “The Scourge of God,” attacked with an unstoppable army of a half-million warriors. More

President Ford told the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Bay Area Council in San Francisco, CA, April 4, 1975: “Representatives would … argue … convincingly … for this … or that social program … I recall … sitting there … thinking to myself, don’t they realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want […]

On Palm Sunday in 937 A.D., during the reign of Caliph al-Radi of the Abbasid Caliphate, ordered Muslim rioters to plunder the Church of Calvary and the Church of the Resurrection.More

Penn was locked up on London’s notorious Newgate Prison, 1670, where he wrote: “By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind … but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way …” More

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF … In 1571, the Spanish navy stopped the Islamic Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Lepanto. In 1572, Spain killed 10,000 Dutch Reformed in the “Spanish Fury” in Antwerp, Belgium. The English and the Dutch worked together to defeat the Invincible Spanish Armada in 1588. […]

Reagan stated in Beijing, China, April 27, 1984: “I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state … But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.”More

In 1862, the London Jewish Chronicle reported: “We now have a few words of the Jews of the United States in general … The Constitution having established perfect religious liberty, Jews were free in America … They … in a comparatively short time, prospered and throve there in a degree unexampled in Europe.” More

Tisha B’Av in the year 587 B.C. was the day the Babylonians destroyed Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, and carried the Tribe of Judah into captivity. More

Later, Astronaut James Irwin became an evangelical minister. Of his experience of walking on the moon, he stated: “I felt the power of God as I’d never felt it before … Being on the moon had a profound spiritual impact upon my life. Before I entered space with the Apollo 15 mission in July of 1971, I was … a silent […]

Lincoln stated: “… I locked the door, and got down on my knees before Almighty God, and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this was His war, and our cause His cause, but we couldn’t stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville. And I then and there made a solemn vow to Almighty God, that if He […]

The Articles of Confederation were an attempt to loosely knit the thirteen States together, while leaving most of the authority under each individual State’s jurisdiction. More

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 […]