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“There is no greater calling than being civically engaged and bringing the values that Scripture teaches us into every realm of the earth,” Schatzline said.

Slavery was the basis of their wealth, and they aggressively justified it by citing Scripture as well as the law.

They might hold a Bible study in a karaoke bar, taking questions over a meal, consulting Scripture on cellphones.

But the show that set the bar for the meeting place of Southern life, politics and religion was “Designing Women,” in which characters regularly attend Sunday service and engage in conversations about Scripture.

Kirk called him “one of the most influential Protestant minds since the Reformation,” and a “legend” who “never bowed to the gods of this age” and “never apologized for Scripture.”