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The American Soul: America's Christian Heritage
A deeper dive into the Christian history and heritage of America.
Episodes
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageSleepy Hollow By Firelight
Send us Fan Mail A good ghost story doesn’t start with a scream. It starts with a place that feels a little too quiet, a little too sure of its old tales, and…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageWashington Irving’s The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Send us Fan Mail Sleepy Hollow isn’t just a scary story, it’s a portrait of how a place can shape the mind. I’m Jesse Cope, and for a couple episodes I’m…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageFirsthand Portraits Of Christopher Columbus
Send us Fan Mail Columbus gets talked about like everyone already knows the whole story, but most of what we hear is filtered through modern politics rather…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageThe Bible As A School Book
Send us Fan Mail A law can mandate lessons about communism’s atrocities, but it can’t answer a deeper question: what kind of people are our schools forming…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageWhy Benjamin Rush Wanted The Bible Taught In Classrooms
Send us Fan Mail Florida passed a law requiring schools to teach the history and atrocities of communism and that sparks a bigger question we can’t dodge: who…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritagePrayer That Held The Constitution Together
Send us Fan Mail Benjamin Franklin didn’t just debate at the Constitutional Convention, he called the room to its knees. When weeks of argument produced more…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageAre You Building A Home Or Tearing It Down
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever felt like modern marriage advice is built to make you feel good instead of helping you get better, we’re going back to a…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageWhy A Nation Rises Or Falls With Marriage
Send us Fan Mail A single image can cut through your excuses. I start with a photo tied to the Holodomor, the Stalin-era famine that shows what happens when…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageChristian Roots Of American Education
Send us Fan Mail America didn’t stumble into Christian language in education by accident. When you read the founding purposes of early colleges and…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageHow Ivy League Schools Began With Christ At The Center
Send us Fan Mail Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth. These names get treated like symbols of modern prestige, but their original…
The American Soul: America's Christian HeritageHarvard’s 1642 Rules And The Bible-First Model Of American Schooling
Send us Fan Mail “Values neutral” education sounds fair, modern, and safe, but we think it’s a comforting myth. We take a hard look at early American education…