4 Things You Should Reflect on This Veterans Day

4 Things You Should Reflect on This Veterans Day

Veterans Day doesn’t lend itself to commercial attention like its twin, Memorial Day. This is probably because it’s squeezed between two other cash-registering holidays, Halloween and Thanksgiving, and it does not coincide with a car-cultural observance like the Indy...

How British Baptists Responded to World War I

A hundred years ago this August, the world sunk into the dark trauma of World War I—a conflict so costly and all-consuming that no one could be left untouched by its shadow. Millions of lives were cut short, and millions more scarred by the experience of battle. So...

Why No Such Thing as a Righteous War Exists

July 28 marked the centennial anniversary of World War I’s beginning. For many, it was the war to end all wars; for powerful clergy that shaped religious and political life in America at the time, it was the very war by which God would usher in his kingdom. In...

The Great War ”A Tragedy Supported by Many Churches

War began in Europe in July 1914, 100 years ago today. It was originally called the Great War—great meaning “notably large in size”—but after a second war that was even greater in size, it has come to be known as World War I. The immediate cause of WWI was...