By the war years, white Baptists’ profession of belief in a literal Bible has become the norm throughout the South. As such, critics of a literal biblical interpretation, whether they be Christian or not, are often refuted and scoffed at by Southern Baptist divines. Many such critics are abolitionists, while others are learned individuals who…
Today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper publishes the obituaries of two ministers whose lives were taken earlier in the war. Both were pastors of churches in the state’s Reedy River Association. REV. R. B. HALK. A member of New Harmony Church, licensed in 1859. He was sent to school two years under the guardianship of…
Some Baptists have apparently voiced criticisms of Southern Baptist Convention resolutions, passed in May, blessing the mingling of Church and Confederacy. An editorial in today’s Christian Index offers a defense of the Southern Baptist Convention’s insistence upon the Confederacy as God’s chosen nation defending the biblical institution of slavery. Some small opposition was made to…