378 | Joshua Zeitz: What President Lincoln's Faith Means for a Secularizing America
The Realignment
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The Role of the Evangelical Church in Political Conflicts in the 1860s
In 1864, the churches were incredibly aligned with the Republican Party. The Methodist bishop gave speeches where he wholeheartedly told his flock to vote for Abraham Lincoln. After the Civil War, organized Christianity felt much more comfortable being involved in politics and asserting a role for Christians and religion and politics. There are plenty of liberal Baptists, liberal Methodists, liberal Presbyterians who would call themselves evangelical today.
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