The American Soul

Drop us a note about the podcast. “I love that religion that makes it the duty of its disciples to visit the fatherless and the widow in their affliction [James 1:27]. I love that religion that is based upon the glorious principle of love to God and love to man-which makes its followers do unto others as they themselves would be done by [Matthew 7:12].” —Frederick Douglass  Support the show The Am...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “We whose names are underwritten do hereby solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick and as He shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of His given in His Holy Word of truth, to be guided and judged...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty but leading or driving them out of it.” —Benjamin Franklin  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 Pod...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” —Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson  Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/...

Drop us a note about the podcast. [In America there is] an ostensible respect for Christian morality and virtue… [and] almost all education is intrusted to the clergy.  —Alexis de Tocqueville  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 Christ...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.” —Alexis de Tocqueville  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/B...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “In the United States the sovereign authority is religious… there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that it’s influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of t...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “In the United States the influence of religion is not confined to the manners, but it extends to the intelligence of the people.  Christianity, therefore reigns without obstacle, by universal consent; the consequence is, as I have before observed, that every principle of the moral world is fixed and determinate...” —Alexis de Tocqueville  Support the show The Ame...

Drop us a note about the podcast. Article XXII  Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust...shall...make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: "I,________, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of th...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “The Great Awakening united the Colonies in a way that transcended regional differences, infused the land with spiritual liberty, populated their pulpits with clergymen proclaiming freedom, and laid a moral foundation for the American Revolution.” —Robert Morgan, “100 Bible Verses That Made America” Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout...

Drop us a note about the podcast. Article XXXV  That no other test or qualification ought to be required, on admission to any office of trust or profit, than such oath of support and fidelity to this State and such oath of office, as shall be directed by this Convention, or the Legislature of this State, and a declaration of a belief in the Christian religion.  —Constitution, State of Maryland, 17...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “[Our government] originating in the voluntary compact of a people who in that very instrument profess the Christian religion, it may be considered, not as republic Rome was, a Pagan, but a Christian republic.” —Judge Nathaniel Freeman, 1802 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www....

Drop us a note about the podcast. Chapter VI, Article I     [All persons elected to State office or to the Legislature must] make and subscribe the following declaration, viz. "I,___________, do declare, that I believe the Christian religion, and have firm persuasion of its truth. " —Maryland State Constitution, 1780 Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, ‘Yes- if we fear God and repent of our sins.’” —Benjamin Rush, Surgeon General of the Continental Army Support the show The American...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “MacDonald's four years in Downing Street, he said, "have brought us nearer to war and made us weaker, poorer, and more defenseless." —William Manchester, Churchill Biography, Alone (~1933-34) Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Countryside-Book-J-T-Co...

Drop us a note about the podcast. "If Geneva fails, let the National Government propose to Parliament measures necessary to place our Air Force in such a condition of power and efficiency that it will not be worth anyone's while to come here and kill our women and children in the hope that they may blackmail us into surrender ." —Winston Churchill, 1932 Support the show The American...

Drop us a note about the podcast. The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the Word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts. —JOHN JAY, ORIGINAL CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and… in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.” —BENJAMIN RUSH, SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION 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...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.” ‭‭—Revelation‬ ‭3‬:‭15-16 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-...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Inasmuch as our greatest leaders have shown no doubt about Gods proper place in the American birthright, can we, in our day, dare do less?...  In no other place in the United States are there so many, and such varied official evidences of deep and abiding faith in God on the part of government as there are in Washington…” —Robert Byrd, Senator, 27 June 1962 Suppo...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Churchhill instantly replied that the [huge] French army, far from being dangerous, was the strongest guarantee of peace on the continent… Britain must be armed –– “England’s hour of weakness is Europe’s hour of danger.” He urged the Prime Minister to abandon his mission: “the sudden disappearance or undue weakness of that factor of unquestionable French military...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “Now—like Edmund Burke six generations earlier, warning parliament that unless the government changed its policy, Britain would lose her American colonies—he was largely ignored.” —William Manchester, Churchill Biography, Alone Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.com/Cou...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “We have rebelled against God. We have lost the true spirit of Christianity, though we retain the outward profession and form of it...By many, the Gospel is corrupted into a superficial system of moral philosophy, little better than ancient Platonism. My brethren, let us repent and implore the divine mercy. Let us amend our ways and our doings, reform everything t...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “[Hitler was] a fanatic who would be satisfied with nothing less than the dominance of Europe.… war is the purpose here…” —Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, 1933 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   Amer...

Drop us a note about the podcast. “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you.” ‭‭—John‬ ‭15‬:‭12‬-‭14‬ ‭ Support the show The American Soul Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe Countryside Book Series https://www.amazon.co...