Adult Ed, Nov 17, 9:45am

VIDEO. We continue our series on The Politics of Jesus, with Rev. Jim Brown leading us in a class titled, “Our Better Angels.” Addressing Americans, Lincoln dared to believe in “our better angels.” Who are these angels, then and now?

Rev. Jim Brown leads a conversation on Abraham Lincoln and Our Better Angels.  In his First Inaugural Address Lincoln addressed Americans in the North and South, who were about to engage in a Civil War that would cost the lives of 620,000 soldiers: “We are not enemies but friends….”  On the far side of an awful war, he dared to believe that Americans would be touched “by the better angels of our nature.”  Who are these angels, then and now?

View a video of the class below. For an overview of the full set of classes and videos of the first class, see The Politics of Jesus.