"That land that I live in has God on its side," Bob Dylan sang in 1963, cynically reprising a go-to justification for war. That is, believers think they're doing the Lord's work—sometimes a dangerous ...

Divine presence is not always seen or felt by human senses, but there are certain signs that indicate God is on our side. People who are protected and divinely guided may see these signs in their ...

When God is on our side, He will protect us. This is the promise in Romans 8: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (vs. 31). It’s also the promises found in Psalm 3 that speaks not just to the ...

In his 1962 book on the Civil War, Edmund Wilson declared that the usual arguments for fighting it — God, justice, and the defense of freedom — were simply covers for a bestial, atavistic impulse. Man ...