With increasing frequency and fervency, Southern Baptists are struggling to reconcile rapidly-declining Confederate fortunes with their faith in the God of the Confederacy. Obviously, God is punishing the white race of the South. For much of the war, many cries of repentance and promises of changed behavior have been voiced. Some have even dared to…
Today is the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and one-half months following the great, but costly and bloody, Union victory on the battlefield in and around the town. The main speaker for the day’s ceremonies is Edward Everett, a politician, Unitarian pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett’s last…
From the presidency of Thomas Jefferson to the present, many Christians in America — including many Baptists of the South since the commencement of the present war — have complained of the United State’s founding as a secular nation. Movements to rewrite the Constitution as a Christian document, and to forbid Sunday mail delivery —…