This point is so crucial.

Within many American faith communities is a national origin myth that asserts America, like ancient Israel, has a special covenant with God. It’s “this very utopian ideal, that this is the promised land,” a shining city on the hill for European settlers and their descendants, explains Rev. Carol Howard Merritt. Such an idea becomes pervasive, she explains, because many evangelicals are homeschooled. “They’re not using the textbooks the rest of us are using.”
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Sarah Stankorb
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Jul 25, 2020
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This point is so crucial. The Texas Board of Education also effectively censors history books across the country that are used in public schools. The old myth is shattering. We need to be telling more inclusive stories, but we must go through the full deconstruction first.
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I have been reflecting and writing about the stories, people, and places Northwest of Boston for thirty-five years. I also teach history and manage forest land.
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