Blog Review of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation

Jamie Boehmer, a student (or perhaps a recent graduate) of Northwestern College in Minneapolis and a faithful reader of The Way of Improvement Leads Home is doing a series of blog posts on Was America Founded as a Christian Nation. I have reprinted the first part of his review below. By the way, check out Jamie’s blog, Education of Jamie Boehmer.

Well folks its finally time! My first blog post on Was America Founded as a Christian Nation, is finally here! I’ve been waiting a long time for this book, and so far it hasn’t disappointed me. This first blog post is intended as an introduction to the main ideas of the book and give you a taste of the overall tone of the book.

In the book’s preface, author John Fea introduces the question “Was America founded as a Christian Nation?” He shares his experiences in dealing with this question in his academic career by illuminating a very important problem that our culture has. We live in a culture that would rather have 30 second sound bites than sit and listen to the full story. We look to “experts” who can grab a handful of facts and spit them at us, and we graciously and eagerly swallow them up and use them as ammunition in our next volley in the culture wars. Dr. Fea lets his readers know that this situation only leads to more problems than solutions in our quest for truth.

Read the rest here.