Today’s edition of the New York Times publishes a letter (originally published in the Richmond Whig) from a Confederate chaplain that discusses the religious landscape within the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The chaplain is not a Baptist, but offers observations of Baptist chaplains. The following is a copy of a letter from Rev. D.…
The fight over slavery has escalated religious rhetoric in the North. Emancipation of African slaves is viewed by many Northern Christians as a religious, moral, and patriotic crusade. And although Sunday is not set aside by the government as a holy day (America’s heritage of church state separation precludes such government observances; mail is yet…
The writings and sermons of Charles Spurgeon, perhaps the best-known Baptist preacher in the world, remain unwelcome in the Confederate States of America. A long-outspoken opponent of African slavery and a minister in a nation (England) that has spurned Confederate offers of a military alliance, Spurgeon this month, in his London Metropolitan Tabernacle, returns to…