There's a good piece by Pastor Ryan Bell over at the new Religious Liberty blog. It was started by Michael D. Peabody, esq, and already has some interesting content.

Ryan writes:

The Washington Post writes:

In his current Adventist World article, "Clear Thinking About Military Service" Seventh-day Adventist Church world leader Jan Paulsen explains that deciding to carry arms puts "the spiritual and moral foundations of your life in serious jeopardy."

The Adventist News Network reports:

The June 7, 1843 issue of the Signs of the Times described John W. Lewis as “a highly esteemed colored preacher” for whom an offering of more than $20 had been collected to support his preaching of the Second Advent message “among that much neglected class of our brethren, with whom he is most closely connected” (1)

Angelina and Sarah Grimké, sisters from a prominent slaveholding family from South Carolina, became powerful anti-slavery lecturers during the 1830s. They became particularly controversial for lecturing to public audiences that included men as well as women.

In 1839, a segment of the abolitionist movement, impatient with William Lloyd Garrison’s policy of avoiding electoral politics in order to focus on transformation of the nation’s moral outlook, formed a new party in an effort to expand their influence.

William Sloan Coffin, who once said: