What Happens When The Biblical Literacy That Shaped America’s Founding Disappears?

The Bible shaped how Americans understood freedom, law, covenant, human dignity, and self-government. Even those who were not orthodox Christians were influenced by the biblical worldview that permeated colonial America.

But what happens when that biblical literacy disappears? A nation that forgets its story loses its identity.

And when a people lose their identity, they become fragmented. That is precisely what Huntington warned about.

Americans increasingly identify themselves by race, class,