by Bruce Gourley From its earliest days, the colonial experience in the New World was infused with human inequality. Theocratic colonies through both government institutions and establishment churches refused to allow freedom of conscience or religious liberty. Many poor whites were indentured servants and many blacks either indentured servants or slaves. White women were denied…
Today the Georgia Baptist Association, meeting at the Bairds Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, concludes. As is often customary in Baptist associations, delegates issue a “report” on the state of the churches of the association that will be circulated among member congregations in the weeks and months to come. The report declares, in part: [Some…
In South Caroline a new Baptist church is formed this day: the First Baptist Church of Inman (as it is later named). A season of revival following the war provides the impetus for the formation of the new congregation. A growing Temperance movement in Spartanburg County contributed to the revivalism. Historically, Baptists had not been…