The Rev. Jessie Johnson, teaching pastor at Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, Virginia, rejects the idea of a Christian nation. “The government doesn’t establish churches nor should it,” he said. But Johnson also believes the Pilgrims who landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 were on the right track when they […]
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WASHINGTON (RNS)—Jessie Johnson, teaching pastor at Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, Va., rejects the idea of a Christian nation. Jesse Johnson takes his three daughters on a field trip to Ellis Island in New York. The family studied how the founders of America saw the nation as a “city on […]