Today's American Minute

National Day of Prayer: We have forgotten God..." Lincoln, "Awful calamity ... may be but a punishment ... for our presumptuous sins" - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 19, 2024 • "Awful calamity ... may be but a punishment ... for our presumptuous sins" • National Day of Prayer: "We have forgotten God..." Lincoln

Lincoln stated "Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

"Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity, tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government"-Justice James Kent - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 18, 2024 • "Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity • tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government"-Justice James Kent - American Minute with Bill Federer

Chief Justice James Kent wrote in People v. Ruggles, 1811: "We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of those impostors ..."

Justice Joseph Story appointed to Supreme Court by James Madison-“Tyrants accomplish their purposes...by disarming the people" - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 16, 2024 • Justice Joseph Story appointed to Supreme Court by James Madison-“Tyrants accomplish their purposes...by disarming the people"

Joseph Story was Harvard's first Dane Professor of Law. He stated in a speech at Harvard in 1829: "There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation."

Origin of Saint Valentine's Day - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 12, 2024 • Origin of Saint Valentine's Day

When Emperor Claudius demanded that Christians deny their consciences and worship pagan idols, Saint Valentine refused.

Sojourner Truth, Betsey Stockton, Harriet Tubman, Anna Murray-Douglass & Notable Black Women Pioneers - American Minute with Bill Federer

February 08, 2024 • Anna Murray-Douglass & Notable Black Women Pioneers - American Minute with Bill Federer • Betsey Stockton • Harriet Tubman • Sojourner Truth

After the Emancipation Proclamation, Sojourner Truth moved to Washington, D.C., met Lincoln and helped former slaves. She dictated her biography, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, 1850, stating: "When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wanted to keep nothing of Egypt on me, and so I went to the Lord and asked him to give me a new name."