Let's consider what we have posted in recent years for July 4. I found pictures of displays and points of interest.
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What are you creating for your church this year?
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By 1771, as the Revolution neared, Franklin reflected in his autobiography on the lending library's crucial role in fostering democracy: “These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans” and “made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries.”
We could also bring attention to the attacks many secular libraries face for books that most never had to begin with. There seems to be an attack on knowledge, lately. Church libraries can highlight the neccesity of assessable and uncensored knowledge, especially in the fields of history, geography, arechology, archaic languages and other fields that are particurly applicaplel to Biblical research.
A selection of works on religion during colonial and revolutionary America would be good, as would books telling of how the political polariztion in our country is heavily entertwined with some sects of Christanity. These may be appropriate to showcase during Independance Day. As would a collection of biographies of statesmen throughout US History or even the role religion played during the Civil War and the continued Union for which the fourth of July marks Independence......I feel i'm blurring the lines of church and state here, but Independance Day is too hard to seperate.