In colonial America, the Bible carried real social and political weight. The population was overwhelmingly churchgoing and scripture was not confined to Sunday mornings.
Pastors preached political sermons. Pamphlets cited chapter and verse. Exodus, Romans, and Galatians were not just background noise. They were active arguments. The Bible was the shared vocabulary of a culture trying to make sense of liberty, tyranny, and what it owed God and neighbor.
That history is complicated. The same texts that inspired resistance to British rule were used to justify slavery. The same preachers who spoke of freedom often meant something far narrower than the word implies.
We still live inside that tension. The question during this series has been whether we, like those who came before us, can find in these ancient stories a call to dramatic transformation and an ever-expanding circle of freedom. Revolution, it turns out, is still on the table!
