Faith has shaped our nation’s moral imagination in profound and sometimes complicated ways. Christians are called to reflect honestly on both the Church’s failures and the broken places in our own lives. Christian apologist Lisa Fields explores how prayer and lament help believers engage these realities, particularly as we mark our nation’s 250th anniversary.   

Lisa Fields is a speaker, author and film producer whose work sits at the intersection of faith, history and culture. Her documentaries include Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom, created with Our Daily Bread and featured on PBS, and Unspoken, which explores the Christian heritage of Africa and people of African descent.  

You will hear Walter and Lisa discuss: 

• How prayer, lament and repentance have shaped key moments in America’s spiritual and moral history; 
• How these practices help believers confront painful truths and form a faithful moral conscience; and 
• How younger believers’ questions about race, justice and history invite honest, gospel-rooted engagement. 

This conversation invites us to embody an incarnational witness of humility, healing and peace as we discern where God is calling us toward deeper integrity and gospel-shaped hope in our communities. 

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Resources: 

• Full conversation with Lisa Fields on YouTube 
• For further study, see Jeremiah 29, Hebrew 13:3, 1 Peter 3, Romans 2 
• Lisa Fields’ books 
• Jude 3 Project 
• Unspoken 
• Juneteenth: Faith & Freedom 
• From Deconstruction to Reconstruction, NAE podcast with Lisa Fields 
• Christianity and the Making of Early America, NAE podcast with Dr. Mark Noll