American’s Faith Minute

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher purchased the chains that held abolitionist John Brown in prison, even dragging them across the platform and stomping on them as he preached against slavery. He held simulated auctions in which his congregation donated money to buy freedom for real slaves. From 1854 to 1858, Henry Ward […]

Bryant added: “Using clear precedent, poetic language, and appeals to morality, Francis Scott Key argued that the hundreds of African captives found aboard the Antelope should be returned to Africa and freedom. United States law demanded it, he said. The law of nations demanded it, he said. Even the law of nature demanded it. Key […]

President Franklin Roosevelt stated JUNE 6, 1944: “My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation … I ask you to join with me in prayer: Almighty God, Our sons, pride of […]

Flag Day, June 14, 1954, President Eisenhower stated: “From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.” More

Theodore Roosevelt stated October 24, 1903: “In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country.” More

October 1784, Bernardo de Gálvez was made Governor of Cuba, Louisiana and the Floridas. As a gesture of goodwill he released all American sailors who were imprisoned for smuggling.More

“Communism …  seeks through covert manipulation of the civil power and the media of public information and education to pervert the truth, impair respect for moral values, suppress human freedom and representative government, and in the end destroy our faith in our religious teachings.” More

Immediately after Jefferson became President in 1801, Barbary pirates demanded $225,000, plus an annual tribute of $25,000. When Jefferson refused, the Pasha (Lord) of Tripoli declared war — the first war the U.S. was in after becoming a nation. Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to the Mediterranean to protect American shipping. More

Inscribed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is the phrase: “HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD.” Since 1921, it has been the tradition for Presidents to lay a wreath on the Tomb, which is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. More

General Omar Bradley stated in an Armistice Day speech, November 10, 1948: “To ignore the danger of aggression is simply to invite it … We shall doom our children to a struggle that may take their lives … Unless free peoples stand boldly and united against the forces of aggression, they may fall wretchedly, one by one, into […]

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.” More

Joel Barlow, U.S. Consul to Algiers and France, wrote in Advice to the Privileged Orders in the Several States of Europe, Resulting from the Necessity and Propriety of a General Revolution in the Principle of Government (1792, 1956, p. 46): “The foundation of everything is … that the people will form an equal representative […]

Kidnapped Englishman Francis Knight wrote: “I arrived in Algiers, that city fatal to all Christians and the butchery of mankind.”   More

George Washington’s tomb is engraved with John 11:25, where Jesus told Martha: “I am the Resurrection and the Life; sayeth the Lord. He that believeth in Me, though he were dead yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.” More

On the Jewish Feast of Passover, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nisan, around 30-33 AD, Jesus was crucified as the “Lamb of God.” The Apostle Paul wrote: “For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.” (I Corinthians 5:7) The lamb is considered the most innocent of animals. The Gospel of John recorded when John the […]

Professor Peter W. Stoner concluded: “We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and fulfilled all eight prophecies is 1 in 10 to the 17th power. That is one with 17 zeros behind it.” More

How the Quarto-decimanian Controversy separated the Gentile Church from its Jewish roots.More

On Palm Sunday in 937 A.D., during the reign of Caliph al-Radi of the Abbasid Caliphate, ordered Muslim rioters to plunder the Church of Calvary and the Church of the Resurrection.More

“The law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law” -Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, 1955, Law in the Middle EastMore

In his 30 years of ministry, Saint Patrick is credited with baptizing 120,000 people and founding 300 churches. He used the three-leaf clover to teach the Trinity.More

The USS Constitution was about to be decommissioned and broken into scrap when it was saved by a poem titled “Old Ironsides,” written by poet, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. More

On March 7, 2011, the Supreme Court denied a challenge by an atheist who was intolerant of the National Motto, by letting the decision of the Federal Appeals Court stand. On November 1, 2011, the House of Representatives passed an additional resolution in a 396-9 vote reaffirming “IN GOD WE TRUST” as the official motto of the […]

The Texas Declaration ended: “We, therefore, the delegates, with plenary powers, of the people of Texas … DECLARE, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas, do now constitute a FREE, SOVEREIGN, and INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC … Conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, […]

Six years before he came to America, Captain John Smith joined the Austrian forces and fought in the “Long War” against the Muslim Ottoman Turks invading Hungary.More

Post World War I, Shah Reza’s secular government, Britain’s coup to oust him, Mossadegh confiscating British oil, and the pro-American Shah Reza Pahlavi ousted by Khomeini’s Islamist revolution.More

Reagan continued: “Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide […]

Theodore Roosevelt wrote of the Battle of Kings Mountain: “This brilliant victory marked the turning point of the American Revolution.” More

Presidents’ Day is actually Washington’s birthday, recognized by an Act of Congress for government offices in Washington, D.C., in 1879, and for all federal offices in 1885.  More

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

Safavid Dynasty, Persia’s switch from Sunni to Shi’a, Shah Abbas the Great, trade with Britain’s East India Company, and oilMore