The Role of Religion in America’s First Century – Dr. Miles Smith, 7/3/26 (1842, Encore)
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🗓️ 3 July 2026
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Dr. Miles Smith of Hillsdale College
Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War
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| 0:00.0 | This is Molly Hemingway, encouraging you to listen to my favorite podcast, issues, etc. |
| 0:07.3 | Every day you get in-depth interviews with host Todd Wilkin asking expert guests, substantive, thought-provoking questions on all of the important news and issues of our day. |
| 0:18.7 | The expert guests are in culture, law, ethics, philosophy, theology, |
| 0:23.1 | and apologetics. Expert guests? Expansive topics. Always extolling Christ. Issues, etc. |
| 0:35.7 | Did you get a chance to meet with the royal family? |
| 0:38.3 | And if not, how was it like having them there in the building? |
| 0:42.3 | Jesus, Mary, and Joseph? |
| 0:45.3 | The Prince and Princess of Wales. |
| 0:47.3 | Oh, no, I did not. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm only familiar with one royal family. |
| 0:51.3 | I don't know too much about that one. |
| 0:53.3 | Refusing to recognize human nature that is sinful and fallen, and there will be things wrong, and you won't have perfect justice, that mania for creating perfection through human beings on earth, that displacement of God in taking up his powers and thinking government and people can do what only God can do, that creates mass murder. |
| 1:12.0 | It creates totalitarianism. |
| 1:13.8 | What men most need isn't a cold plunge. |
| 1:16.5 | What men most need isn't to eat a whole lot of steak. |
| 1:19.2 | What men most need isn't a pep talk, you know, about taking their business to new heights |
| 1:24.3 | or something like that. |
| 1:25.2 | But what men most need is to know that they're a |
| 1:27.9 | sinner and they need the grace of Christ and they need to be forgiven through the cross of Christ. |
| 1:32.8 | Christian worship is reverent. And that comes from the fact that Christian worship is about the |
| 1:39.6 | presence of Jesus Christ in the sacrament of the altar. So if I just don't believe that Jesus Christ is really here in his body and blood, |
| 1:47.8 | then I don't believe reverence is going to be as big a deal. |
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