An academic, author, and attorney with an interest in the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American life.
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15 Oct 2021
My book, “Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers,” is now available from Oxford University Press and other booksellers! amzn.to/2fDi3eQ
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#America250 #Virginia250
The Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted 250 years ago (June 12, 1776), succinctly expressed the American founding principles of inherent natural rights, republicanism, limited government, and due process of law. @LawLiberty lawliberty.org/the-virginia-…
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12 June 1775: Congress earnestly recommended “a day of public HUMILIATION, FASTING, & PRAYER, … that virtue and true religion may revive and flourish throughout our land, and that America may soon behold a gracious interposition of Heaven for the redress of her many grievances.”
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12 Jul 2024
“…our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is…impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the Charter of kings or legislators; but under the king of kings.” Thomas Jefferson to John Manners, 6/12/1817. #NaturalRights
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#America250 #Virginia250 #VA250
250 years ago today (June 12, 1776), the Fifth Virginia Convention unanimously passed the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the most imitated and influential American founding document. This document merits our study and celebration. @VAHumanities
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12 June 1788: “...I dread the depravity of human nature. I wish to guard against it by proper checks.... I will never depend on so slender a protection as the possibility of being represented by virtuous men.” #PatrickHenry, speech in Virginia Ratifying Convention.
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12 Jun 2022
“...all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, & charity, towards each other.” Virginia Declaration of Rights, Art 16, adopted June 12, 1776
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10 Jun 2024
10 June 1806: “Were I to turn Clergyman, I think I could preach a whole year upon two short texts. They are ‘Put not your trust in Man [cf. Psalm 146:3; Jeremiah 17:5],’ and ‘beware of Man [Matthew 10:17].’” Doctor Benjamin Rush to John Adams.
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“Human nature never will part from power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power, from one end of the globe to another: you will find none.” Patrick Henry, speech in Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 9, 1788. | #HumanNature
#PatrickHenry @PHenrysRedHill
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8 Jun 2023
8 June 1783: if we “hope to be a happy Nation,” Americans must be disposed “to do Justice, to love mercy,” and to imitate “the Divine Author of our blessed Religion.” #GeorgeWashington’s parting advice to the nation as commander in chief of the #ContinentalArmy. | #Micah6v8
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6 Jun 2018
“As long as our rivers flow, or mountains stand, Virginia ... will say to rising generations, imitate my HENRY.” A Virginia newspaper on the death of Patrick Henry who died, aged 63, on this day in 1799, at his last home, Red Hill, where he is buried. @PHenrysRedHill
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6 June 1775: “…GOD alone can effectually guide our further Counsels, & give Success to our Measures; &...while we appeal to Him, ...we should repose all the Confidence of our Souls in Him, without whose Blessing, Arms & Counsels are but Weakness & Folly.” New Hampshire Congress.
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5 Jun 2024
“What Shall We Say? Human Nature is intollerant when ever it has power. Trust Power then without a counterprize to no Man to no sect to no Party. Amen and Amen.” John Adams to François Adriaan Van der Kemp, 5 June 1812. #HumanNature
#JohnAdams #AdamsPapers
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5 Jun 2021
5 June 1655: Plymouth Colony, at General Court, enacted a law subjecting to “corporal punishment according to the discretion of the Magistrate” those who “shall deny the Scriptures to be a rule of life.”
Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, ed. David Pulsifer (1861), 64.
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4 Jun 2023
The House of Representatives, “like all other assemblies, will be composed of some bad & some good men; &, considering the natural lust of power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.” George Mason, VA Ratifying Convention, 4 June 1788.
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Jun 3
I’m in Greenville, South Carolina, this morning, paying my respects to native son “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. He is buried, next to his wife Katie, at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
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15 May 2023
“The foundations of national Morality must be laid in private Families. The Mothers are the earliest and most important Instructors of youth.... The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children.” #JohnAdams, June 2, 1778. #AdamsPapers
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1 Jun 2022
1 June 1774: Virginia #HouseOfBurgesses set apart the “first Day of June ... as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine Interposition for averting the heavy Calamity, which threatens Destruction to our civil Rights, and the Evils of civil War.”
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