In the aftermath of the war, Moody idealized sectional reconciliation. During Reconstruction he minimized the political issues and moral stakes of the conflict and instead called for overcoming division through forgiveness and common religion. The reconciliation he spearheaded after the war cannot be separated from his repudiation of the radical goals of social reform proposed by victorious Republicans. For Moody, a Unionist as much as Brookes was a neutralist, this historical moment made interdenominational networking on the basis of separating churchly from political issues—race and
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