The Lillback-Newcombe Conversations on America’s Christian Roots

Dr. Peter Lillback, founding president of ProvidenceForum.org, and Jerry Newcombe, executive director of same, co-wrote the best-seller, “George Washington’s Sacred Fire.” (2006).
Here are a series of many of their discussions on the faith of the founders, including Washington (listed as GW). Note: Providence Forum is now a part of Coral Ridge Ministries.

• Christianity and the Continental Congress (1774)
• The Continental Congress opened in prayer
• Forgetting our American heritage
• Political Correctness at GW’s own church (Christ Episcopal Church, Alexandria)
• GW and the importance of “religion and morality”
• GW and his Farewell Address
• GW’s proclamation of a day of Thanksgiving (October 3, 1789)
• GW and “the Rules Heaven Has Ordained”
• GW and his First Inaugural Address
• GW and the need to nationally imitate Jesus Christ
• GW and his family life
• GW was a Mason. Does that mean he was not a Christian? GW and the Masons
• GW owned slaves. Does that mean he was not a Christian? GW and slavery
• GW and the recent tearing down of statues
• GW and Church and State Relations
• GW and Religious Tolerance
• GW and the Bible
• GW and Deism
• Was GW a Christian and does it matter?
• GW and the American Victory in the War for Independence
• GW and the Chaplaincy
• GW and Communion. Some argue he avoided it because he supposedly wasn’t a Christian
• GW the Churchman
• GW and his Names for God
• An overview of Objections to the thesis that GW was a Christian
• Was GW a Christian and why does it matter?
• Introductory remarks on GW’s Religion
• The faith and actions of the Muhlenberg Brothers
• The faith and actions of William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania
• The founders and the First Amendment
• The founding fathers and the Bible (mentions Aitken Bible)
• The Significance of the Reformation to the founding of America
• The Two Kingdoms view and its impact on history
• Doesn’t the Treaty of Tripoli prove America was never a Christian nation?
• Were the founding fathers Deists and Men of the Enlightenment and what does that mean?
• The founders and morality in the public square
• The battle over American history and why it matters
• Was the Bible important to the founders? They knew it “down to their fingertips” (to quote Dr. Donald Lutz)
• Christians and public service. Some secularists today imply that faithful (conservative) Christians need not apply to serve in office
• The Bible and Education (particularly in colonial America)
• How Important were sermons in early America?
• The Founders and the media
• The Liberty Bell, Part 1
• The Liberty Bell, Part 2
• The Liberty Tree
• The founders and morality in the public square
• The Battle Over American History
• Religion and Public Service
• Religion and the Declaration of Independence
• Christianity and the Constitution
• America’s Christian Heritage