Under God

Written by Toby Mac and Michael Tait

Narrated by Toby Mac and Michael Tait

In the uncompromising style of dc Talk's Jesus Freaks, Grammy Award winners Toby Mac and Michael Tait take their stand on America's future by examining our past. This balanced yet passionate portrait of our nation's spiritual legacy does not ignore or minimize the dark side of our history, including racism, slavery, and injustice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oasis Audio
• Release date: Oct 1, 2004
• ISBN: 9781608144181

Reviews for Under God

[empress8411 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Arranged in short non-fiction stories, this book covers many events and people from the beginning of American history to modern times. Each story emphasizes the faith in God of the people involved, and the choice they made to honor God, no matter the cost. Many of these stories do not have happy endings. People died for their beliefs. People lost everything when they stood up for what was right. The stories are not arranged chronologically, which can be distracting. Also, the focus was heavily on slavery and the civil rights movement. While this was not a bad thing, I had hoped for a more inclusive book. For example, few-to-none of the stories spoke about WWI or WWII, about the sciences and arts, about the Cold War or Prohibition or Women's Rights. I understand they could not include ever good story. But there was a lack of balance. That being said, this is an excellent book - one might even use it as a devotional discussion or the starting point for a history lesson. I highly recommend for use at home or at school.

[LaDonna Blake · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was a great view on how we as a nation overcame great odds and how the blacks as a people overcame divesting and troubling times

[keegopatrick · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is not my usual cup of tea but seemed to thoroughly enjoy this interesting book. In this book the others examine so key historical people and events and take a look at them through a religious lens. It was not hard to do seeing how so many of our great Americans who have made history primarily during the revolutionary era were god loving, often christian and sometimes even men of the cloth. I think the others did a great job at intertwining religion and history. This book probably would be much more enjoyable to a bible beater because it tries to prove that this nation was intended to be a christian nation or at least be guided by christian ideology. I more or less just enjoyed it because I love to read about these great men and women of American history in any context. The authors also did a great job highlighting all the work that great work that reverends and pastors did during the civil rights era. I would recommend this book to any christian and to any history lover. The facts seemed to be generally accurate something that I did not expect going in to this book. I thought it was going to be merely Christian propaganda which I was relieved when I learned that it was much more than that.