Chief Samson And Reverend Delilah

Book Cover Information for "Chief Samson and Reverend Delilah"Is it possible for the three main characters in this book to live in harmony under the same roof? Their diversity is evident from the beginning: Chief Samson, an eighty-five year old Native North American Indian chief, now legally blind; Reverend Delilah, a retired African American Baptist minister, recently hired as Chief Samson's live in companion: and Mrs. Fancy, a devout Roman Catholic, guarding a secret from her past and working as Chief Samson's long time housekeeper. This book, while taking a humorous approach to the subject of prejudice, asks relevant questions about getting along in today's world.

Book Cover Information for Chief Samson and Reverend Delilah Is it possible for the three main characters in this book to live in harmony under the same roof? Their diversity is evident from the beginning: Chief Samson, an eighty-five year old Native North American Indian chief, now legally blind; Reverend Delilah, a retired African American Baptist minister, recently hired as Chief Samsons live in companion: and Mrs. Fancy, a devout Roman Catholic, guarding a secret from her past and working as Chief Samsons long time housekeeper. This book, while taking a humorous approach to the subject of prejudice, asks relevant questions about getting along in todays world.

The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those who argue that they were Christians founding a Christian nation against those who see them as Deists or modern secularists. Richard argues that it is impossible to understand the Founders without understanding the Biblically infused society that produced them. They were steeped in a biblical culture that pervaded their schools, homes, churches, and society. To show the fundamental role of religious beliefs during the Founding and early years of the republic, Richard carefully reconstructs the beliefs of 30 Founders; their lifelong engagements with Scripture; their biblically-infused political rhetoric; their powerful beliefs in a divine Providence that protected them and guided the young nation; their beliefs in the superiority of Christian ethics and in the necessity of religion to republican government; their beliefs in spiritual equality, free will, and the afterlife; their religious differences; the influence of their biblical conception of human nature on their formulation of state and federal constitutions; and their use of biblical precedent to advance religious freedom.