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…
Economics is never far from the minds of the leaders of both the United States and the Confederate States. A year ago this week U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the National Currency Act, creating a national banking system, a Currency Bureau and the office of Comptroller of the Currency. The act’s primary purpose was to…
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…