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Christian History Magazine—Issue 50: Christianity & the American Revolution is unavailable, but you can change that!

Colonists left England for freedom of religion—now they fought England for freedom on all other counts. Yet, sandwiched between the First and Second Great Awakenings, the American Revolution was still unavoidably religious. Preachers championed “the Cause” from their pulpits, patriots claimed the blessing of God’s providence, and the founding fathers led the charge toward a free nation founded...

“Brethren,” said he, “our minister has acted right. This is God’s cause, and as in days of old, the priests bore the ark into the midst of the battle, so much they do it now. We should be unworthy of the fathers and mothers who landed on Plymouth Rock if we do not cheerfully bear what Providence shall put upon us in the great conflict now before us. I had two sons at Bunker Hill, and one of them, you know, was slain. The other did his duty, and for the future, God must do with him what seemeth him