134 Spencer McBride, Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America

Summary: In Colonial America, clergymen stood as thought leaders in their local communities. So what happened to these trusted, educated men during the American Revolution? How did they choose their political allegiances? Spencer McBride, an editor at the Joseph Smith Papers documentary editing project, joins us to explore some of the ways politics and religion intersected during the American Revolution with details from his book, Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America.