Southern Baptist leaders are busy at work rewriting the history of slavery as a kind, benevolent, godly institution. Today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald sketches the argument, a narrative of the past that is blatantly false and self-serving, married to a trajectory of a racially-unequal future that is decidedly deceitful and disingenuous. In addition, the fanciful…
In today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald, an editorial offers a Southern Baptist commentary on “Relations Between Northern and Southern Baptists.” Of the recent war: “The conflict was unfortunate, terrible, and, to the South, most desolating. The fortune of war was against us. Our armies were overthrown, our fair heritage was overrun and wasted, immense quantities…
Today the Missouri Baptist General Association convenes, two years following the last meeting, held in 1863. Missouri, while not a part of the Southern Confederacy, was a divided state during the war. The big question at hand is whether or not the state organization will re-affiliate with the Southern Baptist Convention. In an effort to…