As the year draws to a close, a total of eleven Baptist churches are active in the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia, including three African churches. A number of the urban congregations have, by this time, settled into a weekly routine of Sunday AM, Sunday PM, and Wednesday PM services that will remain familiar…
Christmas Eve arrives, signaling the first war-era holiday season with many families separated by hundreds of miles and a deep chasm of anxiety. It won’t be the last. In years to come, the fortunate families are the ones struggling with separation and anxiety, rather than grief and death. For now, though, home front family members…
“These days are fraught with many blessings,” Julia Stanford, a teacher in Forsyth, Georgia comments this week. “Would that we had heart to appreciate them – Truly the lines have fallen in pleasant places. God’s ways are far above our poor ways.” Against the backdrop of distant battlefields and a cloudy, rainy week at home,…