Sermons During the Revolutionary Era
The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of Liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.
-Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
It is remarkable the number of writings during the Revolutionary War era that are relevant to our times. A few of these articles could be inserted into today’s newspapers and magazines and fully engage twenty-first century readers. Take for example “The Crisis” written in December 1776, by Thomas Paine: