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Tracing the Roots of the American Republic

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The Shining City Summit is a community of Americans committed to reviving the country’s founding principles through truth, faith, and historical clarity to restoring America’s spiritual foundation.

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meet the hosts & Presenters

Dr. Keith Ablow

Your Shining City Summit hosts are Jim Huntzinger and Dr. Keith Ablow.

Jim Huntzinger is an engineer, small business owner, and has researched extensively industrial and American history. Dr. Keith Ablow is a New York Times bestselling author, psychiatrist and was, for 12 years, a fixture on the Fox News Network. Both have a profound appreciation of the United States, its history, and deep Judeo-Christian heritage.

Join them in learning, sharing, and reclaiming America’s true foundation at this unique event on the roots of our American Republic and its abundant future.

Bill Federer

Tim Barton

Micah Beckwith

Nathan Peternel

DJ Beckwith

Art Carden

Larry Ward

Elise Nieshalla

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About the shining city

America Was Founded With Purpose, Not Chance

The American system was crafted with divine intent, as forged by our Forefathers and described by our Founders in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

We must restore to the American psyche the conscious knowledge that America is not a simple democracy, but a Compactual Republic – by intention and by covenant.

Americans have been severed from any true understanding of, much less appreciation for, the foundation of our Union.

Reclaim the Knowledge, Courage, and Conviction to Lead

The Shining City Summit will equip Americans with the tools to share their history in an inspiring, authentic, and persuasive way.

Have the wisdom and understanding to what the actual American structure & philosophy are, and the work which built it, to counter through rhetorical action and political & economic actions.

Restore our popular sovereignty gifted to us by our Heavenly Father and established by our Founding Fathers.

Join us here at the Shining City, where we shall convene as Founding Americans to unite and embark on the mission of restoring our great Republic.

Foundations of the Shining City

Explore the Biblical Foundations of America’s Government, Economy, and Ethics

Civil Structure

The American (colonial & post-1776) baseline was the Hebrews in the Sinai Desert.

The American vision and physical manifestation rests on Job 1:10 and Jesus’s city upon a hill.

America is a Compactual Republic.

Free-Market (Hebrew) Economics

In a free and productive society there should never be inflation.

Inflation is unnatural, the natural state is prices decreasing and incomes increasing.

Free-market economics can be traced from Genesis 1:1 to the present with God’s hand guiding it through history.

American (Hebrew) Ethics

The entire American system is Torah/Bible based.
The American King is God/Jesus. His reign underpins America’s economic principles and civil structure.

Shining City 2025 Presentations

Shining City Summit Content

online presentations

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The American Model & Summit Objective – Jim Huntzinger

Our Forefathers and their Deep Influence & Impact – Tim Barton

The American Covenant – Find out how the ancient Hebrew republic influenced America’s Founders – Bill Federer

Church & Civil Governance – Pastors Micah Beckwith & Nathan Peternel

A Jog Through Economic History with God – Jim Huntzinger

Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World – Dr. Art Carden

Economics, Civil Government, & Faith – Elise Nieshalla

The Great Disruption: Why American Values Must Guide AI – Larry Ward

The Constitution as a Blueprint for Psychological Autonomy and Freedom – Dr. Keith Ablow

American Leadership Must be the Salt & Light in the Surrounding Culture