A pseudonymous Baptist from Jefferson, Georgia this week poses (among other queries) the question of why some Baptist churches of the Confederacy are not allowing African slave members to sing in church services. I see a practice beginning to take root and develope itself in some of our country churches, against which I enter my…
Free Will Baptists, equating Christian faith with human freedom, and human freedom with God’s blessings upon the American nation, remain consistent abolitionists throughout the Civil War. The tide has not yet turned decisively for the Union, but Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation at the beginning of the year has encouraged abolitionist Baptists that victory over the slave…
Many Baptists of the South continue displaying inconsistency regarding their heritage of church state separation (despite verbal affirmation). In many ways, the Civil War has led them to take stances foreign to their faith of the past, including advocacy of and loyalty to their nation as a Christian nation that should be governed by biblical…