January 4, 2026
How the Bible Helped Smash the Crown
The American Revolution was a rejection of earthly kings—and a turn toward an even more radical idea: that human equality rests on divine authority, not political power.
A rabbi and a minister march in a parade.
This is not the opening of a joke. It is, instead, the description of an event that marked the advent of a wholly new approach to the role of religion in society. A rabbi and a minister, joined in unison, comprised a sublime symbol of the role that faith would play in the nascent nation known as the United States.
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