This Veteran's Day, let's commend our men and women of the services to the God who brings good even from the most evil circumstances.

The Confederate camp became a school of Christ.

Was Abraham Lincoln a Christian? A look at the evidence.

Despised and often attacked, they courageously carried the slaves' cause for thirty years. Why have these inescapably Christian men and women been forgotten?

He was the Union's leading general and twice president of the United States. But he was no saint.

What did Protestant ministers say about the raging national battle?

Selections from sermons during the Civil War era. From God Ordained This War: Sermons on the Sectional Crisis, 1830–1865 edited by David B. Chesebrough (University of South Carolina press, 1991). Used by permission.

They often risked floggings to worship God.

Christian History editors asked Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson to recommend books that creatively explore Christianity during the Civil War era. Here's his list.

The Confederate camp became "a school of Christ."

Little-known or remarkable facts about Christianity during the American Civil War

Where was God in this brutal national war? An unbaptized non-churchgoer came up with a profound answer.

How would Lincoln answer? His political opponent, a famous frontier preacher, wanted to know.

Leading people in religion and politics during the Civil War era