Good evening, everyone. Welcome to tonights great lives presentation. How the transcendentalists. First of thanks to sponsor of this program dovetail Cultural Resource group. Let me ask the groups representative here with us to please dad so we could express our appreciation to the support. I to this evening. Dr. Robert gross is professor Early American History emeritus, the university of connecticut. Prior to coming to the university, connecticut professor gross title and the college of william and mary and hes a visiting professorships at brandeis and Brown Universitys as a specialist in the social and cultural history of the United States from the revolution to the civil war. His work focuses primarily on the un. His first book the minutemen and their world received bancroft prize and history in 1977. His latest book, titled the transcendentalists and the world, was chosen by the wall street journal as one of the ten best books of 2021 and received a masters. This is thomas societie
Supreme court abortion case, roe v. Wade. Bob Jones University hosted this 90 minute event. Well, good evening. And welcome to bob Jones University and our first of a series of three forums. We really appreciate you being with us here this evening. If we could, lets begin our program tonight with a word of prayer. Heavenly father we do thank you for the opportunity we have here to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. We do pray for our nation. We pray for our erected leaders. We pray for president obama particularly as he leads this nation, that you might grant him a wisdom and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions he makes. We think of tragedies that have happened recently, the tawics of wellbeing and even life of citizen, we pray you will protect a life. And i pray those of us who know you will live godly lives and influence those around us. I pray that you will do that for your glory. We pray n
Supreme court abortion case, roe v. Wade. Bob Jones University hosted this 90 minute event. Well, good evening. And welcome to bob Jones University and our first of a series of three forums. We really appreciate you being with us here this evening. If we could, lets begin our program tonight with a word of prayer. Heavenly father we do thank you for the opportunity we have here to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. We do pray for our nation. We pray for our erected leaders. We pray for president obama particularly as he leads this nation, that you might grant him a wisdom and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions he makes. We think of tragedies that have happened recently, the tawics of wellbeing and even life of citizen, we pray you will protect a life. And i pray those of us who know you will live godly lives and influence those around us. I pray that you will do that for your glory. We pray n
Supreme court abortion case, roe v. Wade. Bob Jones University hosted this 90 minute event. Well, good evening. And welcome to bob Jones University and our first of a series of three forums. We really appreciate you being with us here this evening. If we could, lets begin our program tonight with a word of prayer. Heavenly father we do thank you for the opportunity we have here to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. We do pray for our nation. We pray for our erected leaders. We pray for president obama particularly as he leads this nation, that you might grant him a wisdom and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions he makes. We think of tragedies that have happened recently, the tawics of wellbeing and even life of citizen, we pray you will protect a life. And i pray those of us who know you will live godly lives and influence those around us. I pray that you will do that for your glory. We pray n
We think of tragedies that have happened recently, attacks, and life of many citizens, we pray you would protect a life i pray that those of us who know you would live godly lives. I pray we would do that for your glory. We pray now that you would bless this discussion tonight that we might learn something that would make us more effective citizens. We ask this in christs name, amen. Before i introduce this evenings panelist, i want to take a few minutes and set the context and purpose for tonights discussion its my opinion that believers or evangelicals should engage in political activity on the basis of their faith commitments. I hold this opinion for a couple reasons opinion scripture assumes that a follower of christ will seek opportunities for influence. Its just one example, god instructs his people who are in exile to seek the peace or welfare of the city where ive caused you to be carried away as captives. And pray unto the lord for it. The peace or welfare there of shall you h