The first amendment to the US Constitution says that the country cannot have an official religion, yet most state constitutions reference either God or the divine. The words “In God We Trust” is printed on currency in the United States, but many Americans only pray when they are in a crisis. The pledge of allegiance makes the comment that we are a nation “under God” – a phrase added decades later to the pledge… but what does it mean to be a nation under God in a country where fewer and fewer people even believe in God?

Our team of Christian antiracism educators and friends sit down to talk about what it means to think of our nation as being a nation under God.