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 —…
An editorial in this week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald posits that if everyone in the Confederate States would simply believe the biblical gospel, then Southern troubles would “vanish into air.” Lamenting the lack of gospel belief in the North, the writer makes no bones about the true gospel being that of racial purity–white supremacy and…