Educational

Because the Bible was the chief textbook in one way or another, there was for the most part widespread literacy among the Americans. Dr. Jerry Newcombe shows in this television segment how even by 1863, when Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address, it drew on Biblical themes and his hearers knew it.

We are often told today that America’s founding fathers were unbelievers—men of the enlightenment, who had outgrown any need for the Bible. Dr. Jerry Newcombe shows that this view is historically inaccurate.

Today’s public education is so godless it’s hard to imagine that virtually all the education in early America was Bible-based. But as one scholar noted, the founding fathers knew the Bible “down to their fingertips.” Watch now!

America began as a place of refuge for many fleeing religious persecution in Europe. This Providence Today video looks at the role Christianity played in the founding of most of the colonies.

William Penn envisioned a grand haven in the New World where people who were distressed in conscience could come and find refuge. He called his great venture, “the holy experiment.”