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Under God
by
Toby Mac,
Michael Tait
In the uncompromising style of dc Talk's Jesus Freaks, Grammy Award winners TobyMac and Michael Tait take their stand on America's future by examining our past. This balanced yet passionate portrait of our nation's spiritual legacy does not ignore or minimize the dark side of our history, including racism, slavery, and injustice.
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
October 1st 2004
by Bethany House Publishers
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Well done! This book is a collection of short stories mostly about the founders and shapers of the United States. Aa I read I found myself proud, ashamed, delighted, horrified, warmed, saddened and inspired. I walked away amazed by the strength of the human spirit when affected by the Holy Spirit. I would say this is a must read for anyone interested in the events that really shaped the United States and set the stage for where we are today; be it good and be it bad. This is a book that I w...more
I commend Toby Mac and Michael Tait for putting this book together. There's so much in history that's scraped under the rug, and this book uncovers a whole lot of what's been largely unknown about the founding fathers and much of African-American history. It also has a lot of fascinating facts about the contributions that African-Americans and Native Americans made to the country that you will never find in public school textbooks because this country only wants to give the credit to European-...more
This book is a look into the way our nation was formed by the faith, loyalty and perseverance of people throughout history. The people who made so many contributions to making this nation great go beyond the boundaries of economical and racial divides, people who came together to form the greatest nation on earth! One Nation "Under God"
The only idea of source material is a bibliography at the back of the book. It is propoganda, and of use if you want to shout from a street corner how "Christian" our country has always been. However, if you are looking for history, I would recommend skipping this book and going directly to source material.
The layout is similar to a Chicken Soup book. Not a novel.. but real life short stories about the miracles, feats, and triumphs throughout our country's birth and growth. Not written the best, but it's still worth reading.
Very similar to Jesus Freaks. There's a better bibliography in this book. Some items do seem to need further research. I believe Snopes has some information on some of the articles.
This book is full of stories from Martyers around the world from centuries. Very inspiring, and a real challenge for Christians that read it.
Under God by Toby Mac and Michael Tait(or something) was a pretty good book with some shocking stories that I had never heard. This book includes stories about people in our nation's history that have relied on God or what has happened when they don't. While the book was inspiring, I found it kind of hard to have a real connection to this book because most of the book was about slavery and how blacks have been treated during our nation's history. While I think that everyone should hear those sto...more
i read this when i was like 10!
This book shows through unknown/known US History stories how our country was built by our faith in God. It shows how our strength as a nation is due in big part to God fearing people. The first story of the book is an unkown story about George Washington that was taken out of the history books in the 1930s. It was one story I've never heard before. I haven't finsished the book, but I thought the stories and details I read were very interesting.
This was a good book at giving a less revised picture of historical events. However, it became much more a African American history than the cover let on, and less about our founding, as I had hoped. But, all in all it was a collection of well written articles (though the organization was a bit schitzophrenic).
Great examples of the faith & Christian heritage of our forefathers and those that followed. There were stories here that truly inspired me. Historical accounts the classroom doesn't teach. If we fail to learn from our mistakes then we are doomed to repeat them.
This book had a lot of historical stories not found in other books. It's great to see the spiritual side of things woven throughout American history. I especially like the George Washington story found at the beginning of the book.
I read this book in less then a month, because it was so addicting. Some of the stories in this book are heart-warming, and some stories are very heart-breaking. I would recommend this book to anyone!!
This is a great book. If you want to hear real stories of our history and want to know the princaibles our country was founded on you need to read this book.
Basically a book of short stories based on primary sources on how God inspired and protected early leaders of our nation.
The story about George Washington was my very favorite...I wish there had been more stories like that one.
Best "History" book I've ever read. Schools should teach history from this book.
The Lord has had a hand in the history of this country all you have to do is look.
Do you want to know all of the God stories from the formation of our country?
TobyMac and Michael Tait together? GENIUS!!!!
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