Slavery and the Bible in America
How could people reading the same Bible end up on both sides of slavery?
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- Read it3 min
- The world behind the words4 min
- How it drifted5 min
- What they'll say back3 min
- Measured against the center2 min
- A keeper1 min
- Reflect2 min
- Practice this week1 min
- Bring it back1 min
This lesson opens the last part of the volume, about wrongs the church itself later admitted. The first is the hardest. For decades before the Civil War, respected American preachers taught from the pulpit that the Bible approved of slavery, and whole denominations split over it.
You're not imagining it. Christians used Scripture to defend owning human beings, and some of the country's largest churches were founded in that defense. Other Christians, many of them enslaved, used the same Bible to fight it. Both histories are true, and the gap between them is the subject of this lesson.
Measured against the center
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