A new film opened this month that moved me in ways I did not fully anticipate — and I did not come to it unprepared. I have spent years researching, lecturing, and writing about America’s Christian founding, building the case document by document that the moral framework of this Republic was not incidental to its founding but foundational to it. So when I sat in that theater, I experienced it not as surprise but as recognition — the feeling of watching a storm gather on a horizon you have studied for years.
That is what great historical storytelling does. It does not merely inform. It recovers. It remembers. It inspires.
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