“More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened,’” said Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1983 when he accepted the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. Nearly a century has now passed since Solzhenitsyn’s childhood, and here in America many have not only forgotten God but also, over the years, some have worked to abolish altogether any hint of Divine Providence from the public square. Our coins still bear the official motto of the United States—“In God We Trust” along with the word “Liberty”—but most of our officials and politicians leave their religious beliefs at home. In our society, faith all too often resembles the water of the pond near my house this January; passersby know the water exists, …
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