Week to week, white Southern Baptists are busy defending African slavery and denigrating the United States for attempting to thwart God’s express will for the African race. Several items in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index focus on this very theme. One article castigates Northern Baptists for their duplicity in such decidedly ungodly doings, by…
For white citizens, New Year’s Day in Augusta, Georgia is filled with hope for the coming months. Augusta, a large and important city in the state, is also the birthplace of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC had been founded in 1845 in the city’s First Baptist Church, at a south-wide convention called by leading…
Today the Southern Baptist Convention convenes in Savannah, Georgia at the city’s First Baptist Church (pictured). Attendance is down due to the war. Yet much of what takes place follows the same pattern of previous assemblages, since the founding of the SBC in 1845: committees are appointed, reports are read, and a convention president is…