One Nation Divided by God: Our Longing for a Better Country (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798240989018)

America is in crisis, but the fracture isn't primarily political. Beneath our loudest arguments lies a deeper divide: a crisis of shared belief. In a perverse irony, the principles that once united us now stand at the heart of what divides us. If America was ever "One Nation, Under God," it is now "One Nation, Divided by God."

James Owen Cunningham contends that our disorientation is a crisis of common creed; the self-evident truths that once gave us coherence are now contested. As we celebrate the nation's historic milestone, all acknowledge what the Declaration says, yet many utterly reject what it means. Consequently, we now inhabit competing moral universes.

Yet, this is a call to recover-not a lament. Cunningham explores how rediscovering founding principles provides the unshakable cornerstone for sustaining our constitutional republic-and celebrating our differences. This is a journey through our longing for a better country, in the hope of establishing a more perfect Unio