“Can religion be a force of unity, not division, in the nation and in the world?” Jon Meacham asks.
“The Founders thought so, and so must we. As a force in the affairs of nations, it must be managed and marshaled for good, for faith will be with us, as the scriptures say, to the end of the age.
“For many, reverence for one’s own tradition is not incompatible with respect for the tradition of others.”
Jon Meacham writes about religion in his book American Gospel—God, the Founding Fathers and the Making of a Nation.