Today's American Minute

Jefferson's views on Jesus, Christianity, Rights of Conscience, Indians, Islam, Slavery, States' Rights - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 14, 2023 • Christianity • Government • Indians • Islam • Jefferson's views on Jesus • Religious Freedom • Rights of Conscience • Slavery • States' Rights & more

Jefferson wrote to Jared Sparks, November 4, 1820: "I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man."

Layman's Prayer Revival, Evangelist D.L. Moody, P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth, & the Third Great Awakening - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 13, 2023 • & the Third Great Awakening • Evangelist D.L. Moody • Layman's Prayer Revival • P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth

When P.T. Barnum's show began traveling, D.L. Moody, with help from banker J.P. Morgan and railroad industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt, transformed the Great Roman Hippodrome into a revival tabernacle.

Ben Franklin's support of Religious Liberty, Freedom of Conscience & Abolition of Slavery! - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 11, 2023 • Ben Franklin's support of Religious Liberty • Freedom of Conscience & Abolition of Slavery!

Franklin proposed a General Fast, which was approved by the Colony's Council and printed in his Pennsylvania Gazette, December 12, 1747: "As the calamities of a bloody War ... seem every year more nearly to approach us ... there is just reason to fear that unless we humble ourselves before the Lord & amend our Ways, we may be chastized with yet heavier Judgments."

Ulysses S. Grant: Union General & 18th President "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties" - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 11, 2023 • Ulysses S. Grant: Union General & 18th President "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties"

Grant stated in his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1873: "Under Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great nation ...The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed."

Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 06, 2023 • Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience

Francis L. Hawks wrote in Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America (1836): "No dissenters in Virginia experienced for a time harsher treatment than the Baptists ... They were beaten and imprisoned ... Cruelty taxed ingenuity to devise new modes of punishment and annoyance."