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Historian; Author of 6 books; Senior Fellow at the Lumen Center; former Distinguished Prof. at @messiah_univ; Christian; daily blogger; #LGM; Bruce fan
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Evangelical Christians, Deists, and America’s Founding

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By Thomas S. Kidd, John Fea
| The Montreal Review Verified
On New Year's Day of 1802, the Baptist evangelist John Leland delivered a remarkable gift to the White House: a 1,235 block of cheese. Newspapers called it the "mammoth cheese." It came from Leland's village of Cheshire, Massachusetts, sent by evangelical Baptists of New England, to honor their beloved president, Thomas Jefferson. For those familiar with Jefferson's religious beliefs, the mammoth cheese is both a prodigy and a puzzle: why would devout Christians love this deistic skeptic so much?
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Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?

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By John Fea, Thomas S. Kidd
| The Montreal Review Verified
During the week of June 11, 2007, four thousand Christians converged on Williamsburg, Virginia, to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of Jamestown-the first successful English colony in North America. The event was sponsored by Vision Forum Ministries, an organization that, among other things, is committed to "teaching history as the providence of God." The "Jamestown Quadricentennial: A Celebration of America's Providential History" was a gala event.
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Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill

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By Michael Winship, Thomas S. Kidd, John Fea
| The Montreal Review Verified
Godly Republicanism is about the republican civil and church governments created in Massachusetts in the early 1630s and about the fear of tyrannical power that in large measure shaped them. Familiarity makes it easy to forget how extremely bold and ambitious a project Massachusetts was.
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