Endowed by Our Creator

A very fine examination of the role that religion, and religious conflict, has played in our American story. Artfully blending history and narrative, Meyerson breathes life into an often misunderstood story, examining the beliefs of our founders, and showing how those beliefs did not always determine their policy decisions ... This is a wonderful book, a needed corrective to the heat that often defines the current debate. -Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly As Meyerson shows in this impressively researched book, each side of the sacred vs. secular camp can find ammunition to support its respective point of view. But he regards such partisan exercises as misleading at best and dangerous at worst. That's not because the Founders lacked a clear vision, he says, but rather because that vision was cast in terms of a union in which church and state-but not God and state, or religion and state-would be separate ... [The book is] written in clear, vigorous prose. It should be, and, with the aid of divine providence, is likely to be, durable. -History News Network History News Network Endowed by Our Creator, an engaging volume on a timely issue, outlines a history that should inform the minds of all Americans, religious or not. This carefully researched study ... is both well documented and easy reading... [An] engaging look at religious freedom's beginnings... The book would make for lively discussions for ecumenical or parish study groups, especially in the rather charged environment of election-year rhetoric. -Brother Jeffrey Gros, Catholic Telegraph Catholic News Service In this meticulously researched book devoid of the usual partisan bickering, Meyerson argues it's possible to protect both individual liberty and public religious expression, and he emerges with a strikingly balanced perspective on one of America's most hotly debated issues. -Christianity Today Christianity Today