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What is the Black Robed Regiment?

A Brief History by David Barton

The Black Robed Regiment was the name that the British placed on the courageous and patriotic American clergy during the Founding Era (a backhanded reference to the black robes they wore). [1] Significantly, the British blamed the Black Regiment for American Independence, [2] and rightfully so, for modern historians have documented that:

There is not a right asserted in the Declaration of Independence which had not been discussed by the New England clergy before 1763. [3]

It is strange to today's generation to think that the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence were nothing more than a listing of sermon topics that had been preached from the pulpit in the two decades leading up to the American Revolution, but such was the case.

But it was not just the British ... (continue reading about the Original Black Robed Regiment...)

Historical Sermons

Black Robed Preachers from the Founding Era covered current issues of the day from a Biblical perspective. View a number of the different sermons preached on topics that we rarely see covered today ...

♦ An Election Sermon - New Hampshire, 1792

♦ A Sermon on the Moral View of Rail Roads - Ohio, 1851

♦ A Sermon on Christian Patriotism - Boston, 1840

♦ An Election Sermon - Massachusetts, 1814

♦ An Execution Sermon - Hartford, 1797

♦ A Sermon on Marriage, 1837

♦ Others

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Contemporary Sermons for Modern Issues

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♦ California Pastor Still Facing Charges
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One California attorney says a judge's refusal to dismiss a case against Christians arrested for reading the Bible should serve as a "wake-up call" for believers (see earlier story). A Riverside trial court judge has refused to dismiss a case involving Pastor Brett Coronado and Mark Mackey of Calvary Chapel Hemet, who were arrested February 2, 2011, on misdemeanor charges.

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♦ Atheists Offer Porn in Exchange for Bibles
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♦ Vanderbilt Catholic Refuses to Sign Nondiscrimination Policy
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♦ Baptist Church in Bethlehem Declared Illegitimate by Palestinian Authority
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♦ Australian Ethicists Argue the Right to Kill Babies After They're Born
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