I was privileged to be a guest again on the “American Sunrise” program of “Real America’s Voice.” The topic was a new report in the Christian Post about how Bible readership goes up among those facing crises. That makes sense. It’s like the old saying that there are no atheists in foxholes.

The interesting thing about Bible reading and America is how strongly influential the Scriptures were during the nation’s settling and founding eras. Consider just how the Book of books impacted some of America’s presidents alone. It helped provide moral clarity for their difficult task of governing the nation.

George Washington, the first president under the Constitution, referred to “the blessed religion revealed in the Word of God.” Peter Lillback with Jerry Newcombe, George Washington’s Sacred Fire, 2006, 2026) contains an appendix, which documents scores of examples of “Representative Biblical Quotations and Allusions Used by George Washington.” Clearly, the father of our country was a regular reader of the Bible and also the 1662 Anglican Book of Common Prayer, which is loaded with Scripture. I like to say that if you had cut the man, he would have bled Scripture.

John Adams said, “The Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I........

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