Benjamin Rush isn't a household name.

But he should be, and this new documentary trending on Amazon explains why. 👇

After release, Rush quickly reached the Top 10 on the Wonder Project's page on Amazon Prime Video.

The Wonder Project is a faith-based studio that partners with Amazon MGM Studios, and is behind the viral House of David series, as well as the upcoming Young Washington film that's set to hit theaters on July 3.

Rush began as a series of YouTube videos produced by Noble Story Co. for historian Joseph Loconte. Last December, I covered the first few videos here at Not the Bee.

These YouTube shorts quickly garnered interest, however, which led to the development of a full-length documentary about one of the most important Founding Fathers who remains unknown to most of the American public.

I bet you didn't know he helped publish, and even wrote the title for, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense":

On Thursday night, there was a screening of the film at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, sponsored by the Sagamore Institute and a local chapter of the America250 initiative established by Congress.

I watched the film myself and quickly realized why the documentary is so special at this particular moment in American history.

250 years after Rush served as one of the delegates to the Continental Congress, our nation is once again embroiled in questions about its identity and future.

One of the filmmakers from Noble Story Co., Andrew Teravskis, zeroed in on a quote from John Adams to Benjamin Rush that underscores the wisdom we need in 2026.

‘These are serious and dangerous questions: but serious men ought not to flinch from dangerous questions.'

This quote from John Adams to Benjamin Rush has captured my attention. Any common fool can ask a dangerous question. But our culture is suffering from the lack of serious people who do not flinch from dangerous questions, do not jump to conclusions, but wrestle with questions whose answers and implications they may not want to hear.

At the screening, Teravskis also addressed the lack of hope that young Americans have:

There's a lot of married couples that are not having kids because they are worried about the future of our world. It's a vote of no confidence.

"Decades of nihilistic material" from Hollywood has not helped this, Teravskis said.

His co-founder, Adam Gregory, explained that we need to recapture the stories that unite us as a people.

Stories provide the framework for how people frame their lives. It's how we make sense of the world.

Loconte followed this up with a quote from C.S. Lewis (it's always good to have a quote from Lewis in your back pocket!), explaining how the British author said "we need intimate knowledge of the past."

Why?

Quote:

'A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village: the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.' - C.S. Lewis

There are a great number of revisionist stories out there about America.

The woke cult has worked HARD over the last decade or two to make us ashamed of our country, our people, and our stories.

But the spell is breaking.

As we've seen with the outpouring of love from World Cup tourists, we have so much to be proud of as Americans. There is hope and goodness all around us, my friends.

If you want a story that helps us remember our past to help us better navigate the future, I highly recommend this one. 🇺🇸

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