Examining a White House Video on the Faith of the Founders
Why it matters and doesn't matter
Podcast episode on Spotify. You can listen to it wherever you get your podcasts.
During the America 250 celebration, the Trump administration has partnered with Hillsdale College to produce various educational resources to promote a view of America’s founding which is slanted toward Christian nationalism. In this segment, I take on Mark David Hall’s video on the faith of the founders. You can watch Hall’s video on YouTube here:
This segment thematically corresponds to chapter 5 in my book The Christian Past That Wasn’t (christianpast.com). There is material in the podcast not in the book and much more material in the book than in the podcast.
In today’s segment I have help from Gregg Frazer, Dean of humanities at The Master’s University, Greg Forster, professor of theology at Trinity Divinity School and Michael Coulter, professor of political science and humanities at Grove City College.
In the video, it is important to point out that Hall speaks about the time of the founding as if African slaves and Indigenous people were not in the United States. I don’t mention it either in the podcast episode, but I plan to do so when I get to the relevant chapter in the book.
The music today is provided by Netop. You can stream these tracks in full by going to https://artists.landr.com/991043708780.
Written, produced, and hosted by Warren Throckmorton.
This episode was based on an earlier version of this post.