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On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head and killed by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre during the showing of “Our American Cousin.” It was Good Friday.

It is eerily fitting that the murder occurred on the most somber day of the Christian year. Lincoln mentioned God frequently in his presidency, and his journey with God was deeply connected to the gravity of his work during the Civil War.

Between his election in November 1860 and his inauguration in March 1861, several southern states seceded from the Union. In Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address on March 4, 1861, he spoke about how the nation must be firm in faith: “Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”

Here Lincoln showcased his distinctively American spirit. He believed that our nation was built on faith as well as love for both neighbor and country. Those qualities, in his view, can sustain the American people during tumultuous times.

In September 1862, during one of the most personally challenging parts of the Civil War, Lincoln wrote a private “Meditation on the Divine Will.” The Union had recently lost the Second Battle of Bull Run, and there were immense challenges ahead for the president. The country was tiring of the war. The growing death toll weighed heavily on the president. Had the time come to end the war?

According to one of his White House secretaries John Hay, the letter was the president’s way of working through his confusion and stress about the most important decision of his life. Hay also noted that this letter was not meant to be seen by men, which is why we have only one section. Lincoln writes:

“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party — and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose. I am almost ready to say that this is probably true — that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By his mere great power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And, having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”

The words above are filled with religious significance and depth. They relate the broken heart of a man—and a president—for his fellow countrymen.

Faith demands that we be utterly honest with both ourselves and God. Lincoln’s meditation was more than a mere method to inform the president’s decision making; it was itself a prayer.

First, Lincoln writes that God’s will is victorious. To understand what that means for him, Lincoln then references a philosophical idea called “the principle of noncontradiction.” Most famously explained by Aristotle, the principle holds that two opposing claims cannot both be true in the same way at the same time. Therefore, either the south was right that human beings are not equal, and some can thus be owned by others. Or the north was right that the expansion of slavery—even its existence—is immoral because all human beings have dignity.

Second, Lincoln writes that the outcome of the war might be different from what either side hopes for. God often works in unexpected ways. God’s logic often makes itself known through challenging and confusing times. Though painful, this can ultimately teach us to rely on God and trust that providence will lead us through.

Finally, the president’s meditation on God’s will does not seem to have resolved all Lincoln’s confusion. The war must continue, for now. This brings him much grief, but he knows that it is right.

Our own prayers often mirror Lincoln’s. We ask God for help, healing, or to change our circumstances, but we know he is unlikely to remove our suffering immediately. When there is no clear solution or instant change at hand, the only thing we can do is act in the truth, be committed to justice, and rely on God.

Although Abraham Lincoln is most famous for his dramatic public actions and speeches, this quiet, prayerful resignation to the will of God is part of his legacy too.

Our true colors emerge when we are faced with great challenges. Lincoln turned to God. May we follow his lead in doing the same during our own trials as well.

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Education revamped efforts to track foreign donations to postsecondary institutions. State lawmakers have never required the same oversight of international gifts to K-12 schools—until now.

Colleges and universities are required to report foreign gifts worth $250,000 or more to the U.S. Department of Education. For 2025, the agency reported $5.2 billion in such spending, including $528 million from China to colleges and universities (a total of $6.8 billion from China since 1986). But foreign countries and affiliated foundations are also giving to K-12 schools, contributions that afford international actors a level of influence over students in the U.S.

In fact, Stanford University students report that Chinese interests are trying to extract information from U.S. students in sensitive research areas (the subject of a recent congressional hearing). Apart from isolated cases such as these, lawmakers and taxpayers have little information about foreign gifts to elementary and secondary schools.

To remedy this, Georgia lawmakers approved a proposal on April 6 that would require public schools to report gifts and grants from entities in other countries. Legislators have sent the proposal to the governor.

This is good news for taxpayers. Foreign agents do not send gifts to educational institutions for nothing—generous grants create access to educators and students. Taxpayers should know how the spending is influencing classrooms.

Consider the Qatar Foundation International (QFI). QFI is the U.S.-based subsidiary of the Qatar Foundation, and it awards grants to K-12 schools ostensibly for academic and extracurricular programs in Arabic language and culture. But research has uncovered antisemitic and other discriminatory school activities linked to the spending.

QFI says it wants to “connect cultures” and “advance global citizenship,” but their favored programs are notably biased. Reporting from the Washington Free Beacon has found that QFI grants have funded “social justice” lessons in U.S. public schools, for example, not just Arabic textbooks.

QFI has advertised some of its programs, such as a “summer immersion institute” at a Houston school in July 2025 and spending on “teacher councils” around the world, but these do not tell the whole story. In Brooklyn, New York, an Arab Culture Arts classroom that receives funding from QFI displayed an inaccurate map of the “Arab World” that labeled Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza as a unified Palestine. (At a 2024 congressional hearing, then-chancellor of New York City public schools David Banks said the map “was not part of the resources that came from the Qatar Foundation.” He asked the teacher to remove the map, but why was such material accessible in the first place?)

Photos posted by QFI on social media show a teacher at Manara Academy, a Texas charter school, hand-painting a map of the Israeli region. Her finished project erased the Jewish state altogether, instead depicting a single Palestine from the river to the sea, the outcome embraced by political movements and Islamist terrorist groups that reject Israel’s right to exist.

In September 2025, Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., chair of a congressional subcommittee on K-12 education, said, “At some schools in my home state of California, the antisemitic environment is so hostile that Jewish children are withdrawing and transferring elsewhere.”

Kiley’s subcommittee held a hearing on antisemitic activity in schools, and witnesses specifically cited Qatar in the discussion of antisemitic public-school programs.

The Heritage Foundation produced model legislation that would provide more transparency over foreign grants to K-12 schools and postsecondary institutions, similar to the Georgia proposal.

Heritage’s model prohibits contracts between schools and countries of concern involving academic resources. State officials could use the model to call for a review of all spending from international interests, akin to the federal requirement on colleges and universities (Notably, the U.S. Department of Education reports that Qatar is the largest foreign funder of universities in the U.S., sending $8.8 billion to these institutions over the last 40 years).

Georgia lawmakers are taking seriously the discrimination and antisemitism orbiting foreign gifts to K-12 schools. Members of Congress have held hearings, and investigative reporters have gathered evidence, all of which gives state officials reason enough to consider new protections for American students.

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