Kentucky is engaged in a see-saw battle for control between Union and Confederate forces. Refusing to secede, the state nonetheless harbors many Confederates. This month, Union forces in northern Kentucky visit the Sardis Primitive Baptist Church in Union, a congregation with Confederate sentiments. One member, Mary Beckley Bristow, comments upon these recent events: Have just…
Baptists in the North continue to advance, despite the war. This month, the First Baptist Church of St. Paul, Minnesota opens its new Wacouta Street facility. The second church building constructed by the Baptists of St. Paul, the congregation at this time is 13 years old. The still-young St. Paul congregation reflects the geographical growth…
The Civil War era is marked by a number of religious subplots that involve Baptists. One such narrative is the birth and early years of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. In the early 1820s, a Vermont Baptist minister, William Miller, became convinced that Postmillennialism (the prevailing Christian view, in the Western world, of the second coming…