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  "path": "/2026/05/04/christian-roots-american-liberty/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T14:28:36.000Z",
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    "America",
    "The Christian Roots of American Liberty: A Reader",
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    "Dylan Pahman and John C. Pinheiro on Christian Roots of American Liberty",
    "The Bible’s Significance for the American Founders",
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  "textContent": "Centuries of Christian ideas shaped the American founding, even as today new movements on the Right—from national conservatives to neo-integralists to post-liberals to Christian nationalists—have challenged this conviction, even dismiss the founding as hopelessly secular.\n\nThis week I spoke with authors Dylan Pahman and John C. Pinheiro to discuss their new book _The Christian Roots of American Liberty: A Reader_.\n\nI hope that you enjoy our conversation viewable on the IRD YouTube channel below or downloadable as podcast audio on our SoundCloud account.\n\nThe IRD · Dylan Pahman and John C. Pinheiro on Christian Roots of American Liberty\n\n**More from IRD** :\n\nThe Bible’s Significance for the American Founders\n\nHow Anglo-American Christianity Advanced Ordered Liberty\n\nIndependence Day and Christian Liberty\n\nThe post The Christian Roots of American Liberty appeared first on Juicy Ecumenism.",
  "title": "The Christian Roots of American Liberty"
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