Today's American Minute

First Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 24, 2023 • First Christian Missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands

In 1823, Queen Kaʻahumanu and six high chiefs requested to be baptized as Christians. The Queen Kaʻahumanu's government then banned prostitution and drunkenness ... In 1824, Chiefess Kapiolani, the cousin of Kamehameha I, defied the volcano goddess Pele by saying a Christian prayer, climbing down into the lava crater and returning unharmed, then eating the forbidden Ōhelo berries.

Women's Rights Champions: Suffragettes Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Frances Willard, Emma Willard, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 23, 2023 • and Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Emma Willard • Frances Willard • Lucretia Mott • Women's Rights Champions: Suffragettes Susan B. Anthony

Lucretia Mott stated: "The very first act of note that is mentioned when the disciples and apostles went forth ... Peter stood forth ... quoting the prophet Joel ... that 'the time is come, this day is fulfilled the prophecy, when it is said, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,' etc. -- the language of the Bible is beautiful in its repetition -- 'upon my servants and my handmaidens I will pour out my spirit and they shall prophesy.'Now can anything be clearer than that?"

Was the U.S. Constitution ratified by "Christian" States? - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 21, 2023 • Was the U.S. Constitution ratified by "Christian" States?

Were the states that ratified the U.S. Constitution effectively "Christian" states?

The answer can be seen by examining the acknowledgements of religion in the state constitutions at the time those states debated and ratified the U.S. Constitution.

Withholding Taxes from Your Paycheck started as Emergency during WWII "People will willingly pay very high taxes during wartime" - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 15, 2023 • Withholding Taxes from Your Paycheck started as Emergency during WWII "People will willingly pay very high taxes during wartime"

John F. Kennedy told Congress, April 20, 1961: "Introduced during the war when the income tax was extended to millions of new taxpayers, the wage-withholding system has been one of the most important and successful advances in our tax system in recent times ... Initial difficulties were quickly overcome, and the new system helped the taxpayer no less than the tax collector."

Abolitionist Poets: William Lloyd Garrison, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker, Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 12, 2023 • Abolitionist Poets: William Lloyd Garrison • Henry David Thoreau & Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "America ... a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race" • Louisa May Alcott • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Theodore Parker • William Ellery Channing

"America ... a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race" - Ralph Waldo Emerson