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…
This year, in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, the founding of African Baptist churches proliferates. Unfortunately, the details of the formation of many of these congregations are nebulous. According to one early source, the Fourth Baptist Church, African (later Metropolitan Baptist Church) is formed this month in the District of Columbia “by a few holding…
Following the directives of the delegates to this month’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, Southern Baptists this month establish their first Sunday School Board at Greenville, South Carolina. It is a bold move at a time when the war has obliterated Southern Baptist mission efforts apart from work among Confederate soldiers. The production of literature,…