The American Soul

Drop us a note about the podcast. “When I heard you had turned your mind to a defense of infidelity, I felt myself much astonished, and more grieved that you had attempted a measure so injurious to the feelings and so repugnant to the true interest of so great a part of the citizens of the United States.” —Samuel Adams, Father of the American Revolution  Why today do we see a strengthening of the...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “For example, the earliest section of the school system, dealing with children from three to seven, aims, in the cities, to keep children under its charge six, eight and ten hours per day, and in ultimate ideal… this procedure is to be universal and compulsory.” —John Dewey, Father of Modern American Public Education  What ties together to modern role of public ed...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Hence the great task of the school is to counteract and transform those domestic and neighborhood tendencies [the Church and family] that are still so strong, even in a nominally collectivistic régime.” —John Dewey, Father of Modern American Public Education  We are doing a disservice to our children by straying away from time-tested educational methods that once...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Now I lay me down to sleep,  I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before I wake,  I pray the Lord my soul to take.” —New England Primer The New England Primer exemplifies early education in the American colonies and the early years of our republic’s history. The primer had a profound influence in America, not just an an ordinary textbook, but as a too...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “A - A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. [Proverbs 10:1] B - Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. [Proverbs 15:16]  C - Come unto Christ all ye that labor and are heavy laden and He will give you rest. [Matthew 11:28]” —New England Primer, 1691 Looking back into the pa...

Drop us a note about the podcast. Delve into the profound impact of the Bible on our freedom and liberty in this captivating episode with Jesse Cope. Join us as we explore the correlation between declining literacy rates, biblical knowledge and loss of liberties in America. Statistics from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Assessment of Educational Progress, reveal a stead...

Drop us a note about the podcast. Literacy rates have a profound impact on shaping our society because they have a profound impact on the ability to understand the Bible and truth. The decline seen today in academic knowledge is directly tied to the secularization of our education system in the 1960s has had far-reaching implications on our society.  Navigating through startling statistics, we unr...

Drop us a note about the podcast. English and the Bible are both integral to American education and the future of our republic.  Yet these fundamentals, most especially the Word of God, have been questioned and fought against by the left. We have a rich heritage in America resting, resting on the shared core values and assimilation of immigrants to the founding principles of our great nation. Join...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “This [legislature] observing that… there are many persons unable to read the English tongue and thereby incapable to read the holy Word of God or the good laws of this colony…. it is ordered that all parents and masters shall cause their respective children and servants, as they are capable, to be taught to read distinctly the English tongue.” —Connecticut, 1690 ...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them [the Scriptures] in an unknown tongue…” —Old Deluder Satan Law, Connecticut 1642 There is a clear reason there is such strong opposition against the Bible in schools.  Join us as we unpack the significance of biblical educati...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Any system of education, therefore, which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the character of citizens, is essentially defective…” —Noah Webster  What we consider as foundational today in America doesn’t line up with history.  Christian morality was intended as central to education, and shaped our government fr...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Republican government loses half of its value, where the moral and social duties are negligently practised. To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens, than any other improvements in our system of education.” —Noah Webster  How can we reclaim our society's moral compass? Where do we begin?...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore, who weakens or destroys the divine atihority of that Book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer….” —Noah Webster, 1833 Noah Webster’s teachings and timeless advice to y...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free Constitutions of Government.” —Noah Webster, 1833 Support the show The Amer...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed… No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” —Noah Webster, 1828 Ever wonder why Noah...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields.” —Noah Webster, Schoolmaster of America Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebook/dp/B00MPIXOB2   America's Christian Heritage Podca...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” —Noah Webster, Father of American Schola...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “You have received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country.  Your first great duties … are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer.  Let these be ever present to your minds and exemplified in your lives and conduct.” —William Samuel Johnson, President Colombia University to th...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text of our schools. . . The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other manmade book.” —Fischer Ames, helped shaped bill of rights, final working of first amendment  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countr...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible…” —Benjamin Rush  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.” —Samuel Adams, in his Will Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “…of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity and universal philanthropy, and, in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country; of instructing them in the art of self-government without which they never can act a wise part in the government of societies, great or small; in shor...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among t...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty… The rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament.” —Samuel Adams, 1772 Support the show The American Soul Podcas...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Marriage was not originated by human law.  When God created Eve, she was a wife to Adam; they then and there occupied the status of husband to wife and wife to husband….” —Texas Supreme Court, 1913 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Cope-IV-ebo...