This week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a recent letter from a soldier in the 22nd North Carolina Regiment. Letters from soldiers are eagerly read by home front families who constantly search for news in the camps and from the battlefields. Baptist soldiers’ interpretations of the war, including the religious aspects of army life,…
Soldiers are on the minds of home front Baptists North and South. Today the Ladies Soldiers’ Aid Society of the First Baptist Church of Chicago, Illinois celebrates the organization’s second anniversary. The evening program includes hymns and a series of guest speakers. While the ladies of the First Baptist Church of Chicago raise funds to…
The war has forced both North and South into a prolonged, anguished and uneasy conversation about death. Baptists (as well as other persons of faith) discuss death at a level perhaps never before witnessed, crafting a narrative of a “good death”–a passing which is wrapped in the honor of sacrifice for family and nation and…