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…
The Civil War has resulted in increased religious sentiment, both South and North. Within the United States, the surge or religiosity takes form, partly, in a movement to place a tribute to God on U.S. coinage. Peculiarly, the request to the government that initiated the move toward recognizing God on coinage began with a Baptist…
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…