‘Righteous Strife’ Review: Calling Heaven to the Union’s Cause
Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...
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Lincoln, King Recalled in Goodwyn House Talk on Their Faiths
By Courtney Mussen The fruit of a collaboration between Goodwin House in Baileys Crossroads and the Concerned Citizens ...
The New Yorker7d
Abraham Lincoln: The Union as Religious Mysticism
Edmund Wilson, who died in 1972, was a longtime book critic and essayist for the magazine. The historian Stephen Kotkin analyzes what a President who governs in the style of professional wrestling ...
Christianity Today22d
In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
How the intensifying religious visions of North and South erupted into civil war. In his second inaugural address, delivered as the Civil War neared its end, Abraham Lincoln turned not to politics ...
Wall Street Journal6d
‘Righteous Strife’ Review: Calling Heaven to the Union’s Cause
As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious skeptic. Raised in the Presbyterian Church, he would later decline to attend services and publicly question Christianity’s central tenets.