On Thursday afternoon I will giving a lecture entitled “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?” at the LancasterHistory.Org (formerly the Lancaster County Historical Society) in Lancaster, PA. I hope to see some of you there.
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2014 @ 04:00PM – 05:30PM
REGIONAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction
Speaker: John Fea, Ph.D., Chair, Department of History, Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, PA
Was America founded as a Christian nation? This question has become a fixture in our so-called “culture wars.” But just what did the Founding Fathers believe about the relationship between religion and the American republic? This lecture offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many conservative Christians assert, or a secular state, as others contend. The goal is to approach the issue from a historical perspective, helping attendees see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past.- Colloquia are held at LancasterHistory.org’s campus, 230 N President Avenue.
- Social gathering 4 pm
- Presentation from 4:30 to 5:30
- All colloquia are free and open to the public.
RECOMMENDED READING
Anyone who wants to believe that Independence Day is a Christian holiday should read Frederick Douglass’s “What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?” David Barton speaks at First Baptist-Dallas. 
FORUM: The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse 
Recovered from the archives: “An Open Letter to the Students of Charis Bible College” 
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
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