During the war years Southern Baptist elites have constructed a narrative of a Christian Confederacy and a Satanic Union, at least one to the point of labeling the abolitionist North as the “final Antichrist.” Abolitionist Christians—and that includes a seeming majority in the North by this point—are, according to this storyline, the very instruments of…
Disloyalty to the Confederate cause is becoming a significant problem, even in the Deep South. Thousands of Confederate soldiers in the heart of the Confederacy, disgruntled at fighting a slaveholders’ war and anxious to assist their suffering families, have deserted and returned to their families and communities. The desertions should come as no surprise to…
The bi-annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention assembles today in the Green Street Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia (a location chosen after the original plan to meet in Columbia, Mississippi was jeopardized by the presence of the United States Army in the state). As in 1845 (the year of the formation of the SBC),…