Church inside the Capitol…

What is now called Statuary Hall was where Congress met for fifty years,  until 1857.   It’s also where Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison attended non-denominational  Christian worship services  on Sundays.  In fact,  for generations, the Capitol was transformed every week into the largest church on the East Coast.

It’s hard to believe that our first chief executives believed government should protect religion belief instead of trying to crush it.

What Jefferson wrought…

That’s the title of  this piece by Rich Lowry on the man who laid the foundation for our republic.   Stroube Smith comments on our Founders’   bravery and uncertainty.

For an appreciation of freedom by a modern man whose mother was a Polish freedom fighter,  read this by Marc Thiessen.   Be sure to pay attention to this  email from a Navy ensign.   If we’re still producing young men and women who think this way,  at least some of us are doing something right!

Look back  70 years to Winston Churchill’s  July 4th address to America.