In this edition of the Reading Wheel Review podcast, Dr. Jordan Ballor, executive director of First Liberty’s Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy, interviews Miles Smith, an assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College and author of Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War. The
Dr. Miles Smith’s Religion & Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War gives a careful rendering of the role Christianity played in the Early Republic. He argues the mainstream of American opinion saw itself neither as a theocracy run by the church nor a secularized state that ignored or
What does it mean for America to be a Christian nation? In today’s political climate, partisans of the right and the left seem to froth at the mouth while attempting to answer this question. For evidence, one need only track the dialogue around the term “Christian Nationalism,” which, though vacuous in
The argument that this book puts forth is not revolutionary, but it is a thesis still largely inaccessible (or unknown) to evangelical Protestant intellectuals, laypeople, and pastors in a scholarly form. What this volume proposes is that the United States Constitution’s disestablishment did not secularize society, nor did it remove
