Slavery

“When debating slavery, O’Connor raises uncomfortable issues that some Christians would rather avoid. While he’s right to name these tensions, his interpretation of the Bible’s teaching on slavery subtly distorts Scripture’s message.” - TGC

“Sam Harris and Ross Douath recently discussed religion and I want to address three questions that came up about how religion and morality relate to each other. First, has religion contributed to moral progress?” - Truth Unites

“Antietam was a horrific battle, with no clear victor. And despite that, it resulted in a seismic victory for liberty – the freedom of 3.5 million enslaved Americans through the Emancipation Proclamation just five days afterwards.” - Providence

“One of the legal issues raised in both cases was simply the definition of a person. Just what and who is a person? And what rights does this ‘person’ have?” - Imaginative Conservative

“Sean McGever’s Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield seeks to shed light on this complex subject, focusing on three of American evangelicalism’s three most influential figures” - Providence

“’My mother,’ Washington wrote, ‘…explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying but fearing that she would never live to see.’” - TGC

“Dinesh never really got off of the big picture into the details, so there’s a lot of vagueness….” - Gavin Ortlund

“Much of Kengor’s book subsequently explains the ‘before,’ ‘after,’ and ‘ever since’ of the Catholic Church’s condemnation of slavery and how this teaching emerged very early in the Church’s life.” - Religion & Liberty

“Northern Baptists opposed slavery in the antebellum era and southern Baptists supported it….It’s not an invalid summary of the broad state of affairs, yet the reality was more complex. Consider the case of David Barrow.” - London Lyceum

“Just as Baptists disagreed on seemingly everything else, they did not view slavery in precisely the same way — even in South Carolina.” - London Lyceum