Status Updates From The American Story: The Beg...

“Separation of church and state” originally meant preventing a government-run church (England) not removing faith from public life.
When the Bible and prayer were pushed out of schools, it weakened the moral foundation that once shaped the nuclear family and communities.
“Without accurate historical knowledge. The Constitution can be wrongly applied to stop practices it was originally designed to protect.”

“I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge of our forefathers had of the Bible and their beliefs in it: freedom of belief, of expression, of assemble, of petition, the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of the home, equal justice under law, and the reservation of powers to the people.”
-Earl Warren, US Supreme Court Chief Justice

I’m struck by how deeply biblical ideas and language are woven into the foundations of the Constitution and the principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence. Today, because many people lack biblical literacy, we often miss the references and influences the Founders expected early Americans to easily recognize.