Soldiers are on the minds of home front Baptists North and South. Today the Ladies Soldiers’ Aid Society of the First Baptist Church of Chicago, Illinois celebrates the organization’s second anniversary. The evening program includes hymns and a series of guest speakers. While the ladies of the First Baptist Church of Chicago raise funds to…
White Southern Baptist anger at U. S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent proclamation allowing Northern Baptist ministers to occupy empty pulpits in the South continues to grow, knowing no bounds. A Baptist editorialist this week, letting his imagination run loose, plays the emotionally-laden “negro” card, accusing the Yankees of planning on putting negro preachers in Southern…
The war has forced both North and South into a prolonged, anguished and uneasy conversation about death. Baptists (as well as other persons of faith) discuss death at a level perhaps never before witnessed, crafting a narrative of a “good death”–a passing which is wrapped in the honor of sacrifice for family and nation and…