Stonewall Jackson Quote by Deborah Ford

“In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Baptist evangelicals in the South as well as throughout the country were deeply opposed to slavery.…

— Andrew Himes

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal…

— Anthea Butler

“As the Protestant denominations—Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and others—were carried into the slave states of the South, into the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,…

— Andrew Himes

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

— Horace Walpole

“some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the KKK, I would have a little…

— Norman Moss

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“Who all is in there? Speak up and be quick about it!' 'A Methodist and a son a bitch!”

— Charles Portis

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

— Harold Bloom

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of…

— Jim Wallis

Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching…

— Malcolm X

“Dear Southern Evangelicals; The Beloved Master Jesus The Christ just called with a Message from Heaven. It is his Divine Wish that you no…

— Leland Lewis