The Case For Prayer On America’s 250th Birthday

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The celebrations of our country’s 250th birthday should provide an opportunity for Americans to think, reflect and to pray.

Yes, I said it —pray. While some might find it out of fashion, the founding generation gave us much to be thankful for — and an example of giving thanks to God for those blessings.

Contrary to popular belief, most of our nation’s Founding Fathers were not agnostic Deists; and although none of them were perfect, they agreed that faith played a role in their lives and in the lives of the new nation. In fact, they put it down on parchment. (RELATED: The Other Document Of 1776)

Many people know that, in the Declaration’s final phrase, the 56 signatories pledged “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” But that last sentence began by noting that “for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other.”

There it is: an emphasis on faith, right in our nation’s founding document—Providence, with a capital “P.”

And the United States needed to rely on divine Providence to win its independence. Consider the Providential fog that........

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