For God and Country

What has Washington to do with Jerusalem? That has always been a difficult question to answer in America, a country heavily influenced by Christianity but also one with no established church at the national level, and for the last two hundred years, at the state level either. From the Puritans on, there have been inventive and evolving efforts to conceptually integrate the American political experience with Christianity, but there has also been strong resistance to such projects, including from people of faith. Law & Liberty’s October forum wrestled with this question of American civic religion.