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In the Face of Moral Crisis, Churches Can’t Choose ‘Neutrality’
How Civil War–era churches that avoided taking sides on slavery ended up siding with its supporters.
Paul Harvey
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antebellum and Civil War–era America, churches and denominations along
the border between North and South voiced what would have been
considered “moderate” opinions on slavery. But as April Holm shows in A
Kingdom Divided, neutrality was attractive but never really neutral. It
was a political choice like any other. Border-region evangelicals were
not proslavery ideologues; neither were they abolitionists. Mostly, they
believed churches should focus on “spiritual” ...
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Churches Can’t Choose ‘Neutrality’
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