{"id":20112,"date":"2026-07-28T18:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=20112"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:29:11","slug":"how-prayer-helped-shape-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=20112","title":{"rendered":"How prayer helped shape American history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Did prayer really shape the course of American history?<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Barry Loudermilk joins Billy Hallowell to discuss his new book, \u201cAnd Then They Prayed: Moments in American History Impacted by Prayer.\u201d From George Washington at Valley Forge to General George Patton\u2019s belief in prayer during World War II, Mr. Loudermilk shares remarkable stories he says reveal God\u2019s providence throughout America\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The interview also takes a deeply personal turn as Mr. Loudermilk reflects on surviving the 2017 congressional baseball shooting, enduring multiple assassination attempts, battling PTSD, and the biblical lessons God taught him through suffering, fear, and perseverance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/specials\/god-country-and-the-american-story\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/media.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2025\/08\/11\/God_Country_banner.jpg\" width=\"885\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did prayer really shape the course of American history? Congressman Barry Loudermilk joins Billy Hallowell to discuss his new book, \u201cAnd Then They Prayed: Moments in American History Impacted by Prayer.\u201d From George Washington at Valley Forge to General George Patton\u2019s belief in prayer during World War II, Mr. Loudermilk shares remarkable stories he says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/07\/28\/Screenshot_2026-07-28_at_7.05.23AM_c52-0-2157-1228_s1200x700.png?ee37a7437b8afa85c1c45bbde2fb6191e215f0e4","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}