Today’s edition of the New York Times publishes a letter (originally published in the Richmond Whig) from a Confederate chaplain that discusses the religious landscape within the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The chaplain is not a Baptist, but offers observations of Baptist chaplains. The following is a copy of a letter from Rev. D.…
Today U.S. President Abraham Lincoln writes to abolitionist Horace Greeley, responding to Greeley’s public rebuke of the president for not doing enough to free African slaves: …I have not meant to leave any one in doubt….I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority…
Washington, D.C.’s E Street Baptist Church, the city’s leading Baptist congregation, is in turmoil. In the face of an impending split, the pastor recently resigned, and mere days earlier a significant numbers of members met to begin the formation of a new congregation (soon to be known as Calvary Baptist Church). The cause of the…