White Baptists of the Confederacy share many of the same war-related convictions as do white southern Christians of other denominations. At a time when southerners are reeling from a string of battlefield setbacks, this week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints a brief commentary, originally appearing in a Presbyterian paper, regarding differences between South and North:…
In the wake of the demoralizing setbacks of the past two weeks in Tennessee — and in acknowledgment of the recent termination of the South’s provisional government and the formal installing of a permanent Confederate government — today is a day of national prayer and thanksgiving throughout the Confederate States of America, as proclaimed by…
Christianity and Confederacy are partners in the work of God’s kingdom. So declares Samuel Boykin, editorializing in today’s Christian Index: A free people, governing themselves and establishing institutions comporting with their ideas of popular sovereignty, independence and prosperity, must, if they desire their institution to flourish, and their freedom to result in general happiness and…