The American Creed: A Spiritual and Patriotic PrimerWhat makes us all Americans--whatever our differences--is adherence to a creed, a creed based upon cornerstone truths the founders believed "self-evident." From the earliest days, the survival of the new republic hinged not merely upon the expression of these grand principles of liberty and equality but upon their spiritual underpinnings. Freedom and faith were intertwined. America, as a foreign observer once put it, is a nation with the soul of a church. |
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... hand to hand one generation to the next. Capturing the essence of the American experiment, the American Creed affirms those truths our founders held selfevident: justice for all, because we are all created equal; and, liberty for all ...
... hands—The American Creed journeys through the highlights of American history, revisiting our national hymns, holidays, sacred texts, and shrines. I write not as a historian but as an American citizen and spiritual guide. My goal is not ...
... hands the fortunes of the community would safely rest. He spoke often of religious liberty but not in such a way that it might be misconstrued as “mere democracy,” which represented for him the “meanest and worst of all forms of ...
... hands of elected congregants, not those of their ministerial leaders. The Mayflower Compact was drawn up wholly without benefit of clergy, the Pilgrims' pastor, John Robinson, having stayed behind in Leiden to tend the majority of his ...
... hands. This arrangement led to a collusion of church and state similar to the one they had suffered when in the minority—an irony Williams could not help but point out. Frustrated in Plymouth as he had been in Boston, in 1633 he ...
Contents
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS | |
A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM | |
E Pluribus Unum | |
AMERICAS MISSION | |
AMERICAN FUNDAMENTAL | |
THE FOUR FREEDOMS | |
NEW FRONTIERS OLD TRUTHS | |
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL | |
CONCLUSION | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |