In this edition of the Reading Wheel Review, Dr. Jordan Ballor, executive director of First Liberty’s Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy, interviews Jana Novak, co-author of Washington’s God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country. Continuing the Reading Wheel Review’s year-long celebration of the American semiquincentennial, Jordan and Jana discuss the religious beliefs
Twenty years after its original release, Michael and Jana Novak’s Washington’s God continues to speak to contemporary debates regarding the religious character of America’s founding, specifically that of its principal figure, George Washington. The continuing relevance of this work is evidenced by Ken Burns’s documentary The American Revolution, which includes the popular contention that “central to the philosophy
A glorious October moon still lit up the sky long after dusk, and under it a grand curve of the Potomac River lay silver in the valley below. The pillars of the portico were illuminated by candles on the laden table. Next to me, speaking in eighteenth-century turns of phrase,
