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# God in America: Three: A Nation Reborn
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/frontline/specials/frontline-god-in-america-three-a-nation-reborn/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:53:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T15:54:50.000Z
- Description: How religion suffused the Civil War
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: FRONTLINE, #ZZZ_Show_8d45e56c-70b3-4c33-a2eb-1c2ac36ca879, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Special_3b68b464-021b-4cad-8044-8d7f397b9351, #special

As slavery splits the nation, abolitionists and slaveholders find justification in the Bible. Frederick Douglass condemns Christianity; President Lincoln struggles to make sense of the war's carnage and the death of his young son. Lincoln, who previously had favored reason over revelation, embarks on a spiritual journey that transforms his ideas about God and the war's ultimate meaning.