The Redemption Project

Learning Corner

Free lessons built to help readers examine primary texts, historical arguments and enduring civic ideas for themselves.

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civics

Before Philadelphia

Deuteronomy, the Bible and the Ideas Behind American Government

A multi-part Learning Corner series examining how ideas found in Deuteronomy and the wider biblical tradition compare with principles that later appear in American constitutional government, while distinguishing historical influence from direct textual borrowing.

7 lessons18 min first lesson
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faith & justice

Before the Courthouse

The Bible and the Ideas Behind American Criminal Justice

A Reformed examination of biblical justice, criminal law, evidence, punishment and government authority, comparing enduring principles in Scripture with questions and institutions found in American criminal justice without treating ancient Israel and the modern United States as the same system.

17 lessons8 min first lesson
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