An editorial in today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder speaks of the duty of home front Southern Baptists to their brave Confederate soldiers, tugging at the heart strings of readers. Those who have visited the army or labored in the hospitals know that there is one object which is ever present to the mind of…
Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside readies his attack upon Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee‘s forces in Fredericksburg. With over 200 artillery pieces pointed over the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg and pontoon bridges ready for deployment, Burnside tries to anticipate Lee’s defensive strategy. Successfully crossing the river on the bridges is critical to a Union victory. The…
Numerous Southern Baptist opinion shapers are now doing their best to establish love of money as the Confederacy’s national sin. Insisting that a retreat from the evil of greed will allow God to cut short his chastisement of their Christian nation–currently expressed in the surprisingly prolonged nature of their war with the abolitionist North–and effect…