Congressional Spiritual Proclamations, June Articles, Prayer

This post is part 2 of the series:When Congress Asked America to Fast, Pray, and Give Thanks to GodJune 12, 1775 The Second Continental Congress issues the first of sixteen spiritual proclamations concerning prayer, fasting, humiliation, and thanksgiving Before adjourning the First Continental Congress on October 26, 1774, representatives stipulated that if the grievances that existed...Read more... Read more...

American History, Islam, Other Than Christianity

While it is true that America's Founding Fathers welcomed immigrants to America from other religions, it is not true that they esteemed those religions to be equal in standing with their own Christian religion. Contrary to the insistence of contemporary atheists, agnostics, and other secularists, America's Founding Fathers were overwhelmingly Christian! As early as the 1920s,...Read more... Read more...

American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, June Articles, Signers of Declaration of Independence

June 8, 1806 Death of Signer, George Wythe George Wythe (1726 – June 8, 1806) was the first American law professor, a noted classics scholar and Virginia judge, as well as a prominent opponent of slavery. The first of the seven Virginia signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, Wythe served as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress and the...Read more... Read more...

American History, Christian History

For nearly three-quarters of a century, the voices of the citizens of the United States have been increasingly muted and silenced by a raucous liberal judicial oligarchy. Neither the constitutions of individual states, nor the federal Constitution have granted unilateral government to the judiciary, yet building upon nearly a century of liberalizing influences in America’s law schools,...Read more... Read more...

American History, Christian Calendar (Holidays), Christian History, Christian Social Influence, Christian Witness, July

In September 1774, the first Congress of the American colonies was convened to address the refusal of King George III and the British Parliament to grant to the American colonists their rights as British citizens. At this Congress and the one that followed, no talk of separation from Britain was entertained. The question was one of how to secure the rights that were theirs under...Read more... Read more...