Christians who wish to proudly hail what America has been, at this last gleaming of its twilight, may ponder how Christian faith relates to other worldviews in its founding. TGC recently carried my reflection on whether Christians and non-Christians can affirm the declarations of the Declaration together:

The stakes in this question are high. If basic human rights really are self-evident, as the Declaration declares, there’s hope for religious freedom. But what then becomes of the necessity of Christ’s revelation? On the other hand, if only biblical revelation is truly self-evident, how is peace with our neighbors possible?

A time of night is coming on, and there will be rockets glaring and bombs bursting. But there will be some kind of dawn’s early light on the other side of this night – and our flag may well still be there, waving over some kind of new world, but a new world that grew in some way out of the old world; one in which people made in God’s image will still hunger for a land of the free and a home of the brave.