According to a new Barna survey, a growing number of Christians believe that the United States is blessed by God and has been chosen by God to lead the world. The survey also found that many Christians do not believe that the United States has historically oppressed minorities.
The United States has not always lived up to the beautiful sentiments of equality expressed in its founding documents. That many Americans owned slaves went against the ideals that we express. The Trail of Tears, Jim Crow laws, Japanese internment, and a host of other policies have treated people like they are less than what the Declaration says they are. The United States has often failed to live up to its self-evident truths. Yet, in many ways, the American story is the tale of a nation learning to be what it says it is.
Americans cherish what most of the world craves: civil protection that allows the individual to flourish under a government that can only exist by the consent of the governed. So, when the President of the United States declared on Thursday, 8 April 2021 that, "No amendment to the Constitution is absolute," his remarks, without explanation, sent a chilling message to many Americans.
According to a new survey by the American Bible Society and Barna Research Center, 59 percent of Bible users in the United States still prefer to read a print version over various digital or audio versions of the Bible.
States along the East Coast are experiencing widespread fuel shortages after a Russian ransomware group launched a cyberattack on a major pipeline last week.
On this National Day of Prayer, let's pray for our leaders to have wisdom, for our religious freedom to be upheld, for just laws to be enacted, for the health of our churches and finally, for a spiritual revival.
Interestingly enough, America's stability is one of the top concerns on the minds of many today. There was a time in recent history when America felt secure in knowing that the most formidable enemies were abroad. Not so today. While we are concerned with terrorist attacks, and rightly so, there is a greater threat from corruption within.
According to a new survey, 29 percent of Americans welcome the idea of dividing the U.S. into politically like-minded regions.
As civil society thins and as Americans become less connected to the pre-political aspects of life, the cultural weight lands on politics. To put it bluntly, our politics cannot handle the amount of weight we currently expect of it. As a result, we are experiencing two unsustainable consequences.
As we noted yesterday, many are blaming evangelicals for the Capitol riots and calling on us to repudiate “Christian nationalism.” There are many ways to understand this term, but a common definition is that “the United States was founded as a Christian nation and must continue to be one.”
This subject is far more complex than we have space to discuss fully, but I will note that nations are geopolitical entities with borders, populations, and governments. By contrast, a Christian is a person who has trusted in Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. A nation cannot do this. As a result, neither America nor any other nation can logically be a “Christian nation.”
