We Hold These Truths

Biblical Echoes in the Declaration of Independence

By: Geoffrey Schmitt

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

We Hold These Truths explores the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the biblical moral imagination that shaped it — without claiming that America is a Christian nation or that Scripture belongs to any political system.

Through careful reflection on truth, human dignity, unalienable rights, moral law, accountability of authority, liberty, responsibility, and formation, this book traces how biblical ideas influenced foundational American ideals — and how Scripture continues to judge, refine, and challenge those ideals today.

Written from a pastoral rather than partisan perspective, the book invites readers to think deeply about freedom, conscience, and faithfulness in a fractured world. It honors moral progress, names hypocrisy honestly, and resists both triumphalism and cynicism.

This is a book for readers seeking clarity without slogans, conviction without coercion, and hope grounded in formation rather than ideology.