What is needed to unify America is a new Great Awakening, a universal outpouring of the Holy Spirit into the hearts of our people.  Just as the first Great Awakening of the 1700′s united the 13 colonies spiritually so that they could unite politically on the eve of the American Revolution, and just as the Second Great Awakening of the 1800′s produced momentous social reform movements like abolition of slavery and women’s rights on the eve of the Civil War, so, too, is a similar renewal of religion needed to unite our very polarized country today.  Over George Washington’s pew in St. Paul’s Chapel, at the base of Ground Zero in New York City, is perhaps the original painting the Great Seal of the United States, with our Founding Fathers’ motto e pluribus unum, “out of many, one.”  It was St. Paul himself who wrote that such unity amidst diversity comes about in the body of Christ because each member is given to drink of the same Spirit.  Let us pray for God’s Spirit to unite America in a renewed awakening of e pluribus unum.