The New York Times responds to the addition, in recent months, of “In God We Trust” on certain United States coins, voicing a decidedly traditional Baptist view of church state separation: “In compliance with an act of Congress the Director of the Mint has caused the legend “In God we Trust” to be engraved in…
As the year draws to the a close, the Confederate economy is on unsteady ground. Prior to the war, the combined economies of the southern states that now comprise the Confederacy would have ranked the South as the fourth richest nation in the world. The South’s monetary landscape today, however, is in the early stages…
Today Rev. Mark R. Watkinson, troubled by brother killing brother in the Civil War that has now continued for longer than many imagined, writes a letter to Salmon P. Chase. Watkinson is pastor of the The First Particular Baptist church of Ridleyville, Pennsylvania (later renamed Prospect Hill Baptist Church). Few outside of Pennsylvania have heard…