American Leviathan

American Leviathan

The Sermon That Ended in a Uniform

The principle: for the founding generation, faith and the republic were not at war. They were the same loyalty.

Sep 29, 2026
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Peter Muhlenberg was twenty-nine years old in January 1776, the Lutheran pastor of Woodstock, a small German settlement in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. His father, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, had com…

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