James P. Byrd is professor of American religious history, associate dean for graduate education and research, and chair of the graduate department of religion at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.
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In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides ''read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.'' He wasn't speaking metaph... SEE MORE