Restoring the Integrity of the Republic Through Rededication to America's Christian Foundation: Welcome to Rededicate 250, May 17, 2026

This weekend, America witnessed a truly historic event where politicians, Christian leaders, entertainers, and other national figures spoke at the Rededicate 250 celebration in Washington, DC. The focus was on reclaiming America's Christian foundation through the fundamentals of faith in and prayer to God to honor, revere, and submit to His authority as THE Almighty and THE great Creator of Heaven, Earth, and all of humanity.

Numerous speakers elevated America's great founding 250 years ago and how it is crucial today to rededicate our nation to the fundamental founding principles of faith in and prayer to God. Fox News provides a summary of Vice President JD Vance's prerecorded speech, which is captured below.

Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that America has “always been” and remains a “nation of prayer” during remarks at the “Rededicate 250” celebration in Washington, D.C.

Vance pointed to George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving proclamation and argued that faith has been part of America’s identity since before the nation’s founding.

“The duty Washington describes to honor, obey, and give thanks to our creator was woven into America's character long before the founding,” Vance said. “… We have always been and still are a nation of prayer. And thank God for that. In times of suffering and in times of triumph, millions of Americans continue to turn to prayer and their faith in God.”

Vance also quoted the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk while arguing America’s moral foundation is rooted in religion.

“As my dear friend, the late, great Charlie Kirk put it, all law reflects a morality. Neither law nor morality appears in a vacuum, but ultimately come from religion."

The vice president also praised what he described as a growing return to faith among young Americans, saying many are seeking “meaning,” “direction” and “closeness with God.”

“That should give all of us hope for our future together as Americans,” Vance said. "It certainly gives me hope, as your vice president, because prayer is not merely something we do in times of crisis

The Fox News link includes a video recording of the speech along with other speeches during the event.

Today's Rededicate 250 rally is a refreshing effort to reclaim America's Christian foundation, which has been under attack far too long resulting in the crippling of our nation at all levels, especially when it comes to faith, family, and the nation's integrity, both individually and at the community level. In a few of my past blogs, I highlighted the Founding Fathers' uncompromising commitment to faith and integrity as essential elements to America's success. In my March 2025 blog, America Needs a Freedom Refresh Now, I emphasized the history of the Founders and provided numerous quotes and examples. The reference below is an excellent example of the philosophy or belief system that inspired the Founding Fathers' commitment to America as a country that must be grounded in faith and integrity.

Joseph Loconte's timeless article Faith and Freedom: The Missing Link, written in 2000, can be used to expose how Kamala's intellectual recklessness runs roughshod over America's founding principles. In the follow-up to his unpacking of the importance of faith and political liberty to a post-Revolutionary War America, Loconte brilliantly makes the following deduction:

The reason goes back to the Founders' view of democracy. Freedom depends on citizens who can govern themselves, which means freedom requires virtue. But it takes more than laws to sustain morality. It requires religion - not the enfeebled variety of an established church, but the muscular faith of individual believers and congregations exercised in the public square.

This quote reinforces what motivated the speakers at today's Rededicate 250 event that will serve as a monumental platform for a reawakening of the ideals and principles that inspired the Founding Fathers. I later followed this up with a quote from David Gowdy's excellent article, which is referenced below.

One of the best articles I've seen on the Founders and freedom does an excellent job of explaining this and what it all means. Without Virtue There Can Be No Liberty by David Gowdy is rich with historical quotes and analyses that for me convincingly makes the case that Republican leaders at all levels need to reconnect the legalisms of our freedom governing documents with the Founding Fathers' essential requirements of character, integrity, and virtue that must necessarily be coupled with our beloved freedoms in order for governance and citizenship to work in America's best interest. Gowdy makes this perfectly clear with the following quotes:

John Adams stated it this way, “Public virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private Virtue, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.

George Washington said: “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,”[6] and “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”

Benjamin Franklin said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”

Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.  He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”

Gowdy concludes with the following profound and highly relevant statement that reaffirms my blog title and, more importantly, my expectation for Republican leaders today.

Virtue ennobles individual character and lifts society as a whole. Virtuous principles eschew prejudice and discrimination, confirming that “all men are created equal.” Virtue encompasses characteristics of goodwill, patience, tolerance, kindness, respect, humility, gratitude, courage, honor, industry, honesty, chastity and fidelity. These precepts serve as the cornerstones for both individual happiness and societal governance.

Gowdy's historical quotes provide the necessary framework and background to make Rededicate 250 an event that reclaims America's Christian tradition as indispensable to our historical origins and America's national integrity and success. Unfortunately, the hostile liberal reaction to Rededicate 250 epitomizes the secularist agenda that has led to America's moral, cultural, and political decay. Liberals seek to defend the indefensible by claiming Rededicate 250 is "Christian Nationalism" and is historically inaccurate. The quotes from above refute the historical inaccuracy claim as does the complete context of the history of America's founding. Troy Lacey's historical masterpiece Christian Foundations of America at the Answers in Genesis website is an intelligent historical analysis of America's Christian origins that inspired the U.S. Constitution, various state constitutions, the Bill of Rights and other formal documents that were foundational to America as the centerpiece for religious liberty internationally. One of Lacey's stellar comments is as follows and can be used to reject the misguided attempt by liberals hostile to historical truths and the importance of Christianity values and principles to public integrity and the National Interest.

These early Pilgrims and American colonists plainly stated that Christianity was good for ordering the civic structure, maintaining equitable law, preserving civil and religious liberties, and beneficial (indeed foundational) for public morality. Far from compartmentalizing society into secular duties and religious responsibilities, the Pilgrims and other early colonists recognized that for a government of any kind (colony, state, or federal) to function properly and flourish, there needed to be a Christian moral backbone to the laws which regulated society. These colonial founders recognized that it was the Christian morality behind the laws, not the laws themselves, which would order and preserve society.

In closing, I will offer just two of the many prolific historical quotes that defend Rededicate 250 and reject the absurd liberal defiance of America's historical founding that is rooted in the Christian faith as the foundation for civic society, good governance, and public integrity for the Nation's best interest. The quotes and images below come from America's Christian Foundation website, which is an excellent historical resource.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) — Governor of Virginia, first Secretary of State, principle author of the Declaration of Independence, and third President of the United States:

No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man, and I as chief Magistrate of this nation am bound to give it the sanction of my example.35

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.36

The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.37

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.38

I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.39

John Adams (1735-1826) — Member of the Continental Congress, one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence, and second President of the United States:

We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.29

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.30

Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean hell.31

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.32

Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!33

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.34