White Baptist commitment to the Confederacy is similar to that of the South’s other Christian denominations: many if not most embrace (in some fashion or another) the Confederacy as God’s Kingdom on earth, while few publicly disagree with the belief that African slavery is God’s will for the black race. Calvinism, a long-held Christian belief…
“Young Brother Singleton,” identified as a theology student at Mercer University, today gives “an interesting discourse” to the congregation at Bethesda Baptist Church in Greene County, Georgia. He is sponsored, one would surmise, by Pastor Henry Holcomb Tucker, who doubles as university professor of metaphysics and belles-lettres. Besides a letter granted to member Sarah Jones,…
Confederate reverses of late concern the residents of Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. The city’s Protestant churches take turns in hosting ongoing “union prayer meetings,” services which are structured for, and open to, all persons. The Richmond Daily Dispatch summarizes the current religious fervor thus: Union Prayer Meetings have been held here daily, (Sundays excepted,)…