The Devotional is a way to connect with Christians of the present and past faithful Christians. It reminds us of the similarities between our faith and the past worlds and how they were different.
Faith & History will help you read the Gospels under the Civil Rights Movement and Holocaust, and also pray the psalms with Isaac Watts and Frederick Douglass. You will learn more about the well-known Christians, including C. S. Lewis and Aimee Selmple McPherson. Also, you’ll meet lesser-known historical figures like Kathryn Kuhlman (faith healer), Felix Manz, Anabaptist martyr, and Margery Kempe, medieval mystic and medieval mystic. Each scripture passage is paired with a historical reflection. It suggests questions for further study and discussion, provides resources for historical study, and closes with a prayer.
This devotional combines historical reflection with prayer and study to assist Christians in their spiritual growth. Faith & History is designed to help Christians understand their relationship with the past in a time where history, memory and heritage are hotly debated in American politics.
Tensions between religious involvement and the public square,which Thomas Jefferson called the wall separating state from church, are not new. In fact, they have existed for centuries before the founding of the republic. Religious people fled persecution in Europe during the Spanish Inquisition, the Catholic-Protestant conflicts and the fights over the definition of a true Christian Protestant faith. The 1st Amendment prohibits any law that would establish religion, restrict freedom of speech, or impair the free exercise thereof.