From the Chairman’s Desk: Lincoln and the Bible
“In wartime, a president who once seemed indifferent to religion evolved into a theologian of liberty,” so wrote Meir Soloveichik, director of the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in a Wall Street Journal article entitled “What the Bible Taught Lincoln About America”. Soloveichik noted: “When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, he was certainly not thought of as a man given to religious fervor.” But with the death toll mounting over the years of the Civil War, Lincoln evolved into a “theologian of the American idea”.For instance, Lincoln began the Gettysburg Address with the words “fourscore and seven years ago”. Lincoln knew his audienceRead More →