What Our Founding Fathers Had Then That The Church Is Lacking Today
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever heard of the Black Robe Regiment? I haven't either, but when you hear what the Black Robe Regiment meant to America 250 years ago compared to what we're working with today, it makes sense why we're not where we need to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Politics by Faith. |
| 0:06.2 | It's where we take the news of the day. |
| 0:07.3 | We bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. |
| 0:10.7 | New headlines every day. |
| 0:11.8 | But Ecclesiasis says, it's not the new one to the sun. |
| 0:13.9 | So thanks for being here to get the true story. |
| 0:15.5 | The story of the day, today, the Black Robe Regiment. |
| 0:20.3 | Have you ever heard of this? |
| 0:23.0 | I've never heard of this group until, I'll be honest, this morning. |
| 0:27.4 | This is the name that the British gave the American clergy, or I should say, the colonist, |
| 0:35.9 | clergy, the clergy in the colonies, who preached the gospel from the pulpit |
| 0:42.1 | fire and brimstone for 150 years prior to the revolution, the black robe regiment. |
| 0:49.6 | We talked to Seth Gruber on my recorded TV show. |
| 0:53.7 | We're going to air that podcast or release that podcast here. |
| 0:56.5 | I think on Friday. |
| 0:58.0 | And he said it's just in passing, just this black robe regiment. |
| 1:01.2 | And I'm never, I was like, in my head was like, I don't know what that is. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm definitely looking that up because that sounds awesome. |
| 1:07.3 | Need to know more about that. |
| 1:08.7 | John Adams said that the pulpits thundered and he specifically identified |
| 1:15.2 | Christian pastors as being among the characters most conspicuous, the most ardent, the most influential |
| 1:23.9 | in the awakening and revival of American principles and feelings that led to the |
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