The Missouri Secession Convention comes to a close, and delegates issue the following statement: “That at present there is no adequate cause to impel Missouri to dissolve her connection with the Federal Union.” While the decision is not surprising, one less border state is in play in the tug-of-war between the Union and the Confederacy,…
Alexander H. Stephens is now serving as vice-president of the Confederate States of America. Many Baptist leaders in the South publicly support Stephens, including editors of Baptist newspapers. Today, Stephens gives an impromptu speech in Savannah, Georgia in which he echoes what many Baptists have been saying for months: that slavery is the cause of…
Samuel Boykin (photo), editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, expresses the growing Christian Nationalist sentiment among Baptists and other citizens of the South: “We have declared allegiance, and which we look upon as our own of RIGHT – a heritage from the God of nations to a people that knows its rights and liberties, and…