Not one to mince words or skirt around issues, Samuel Boykin of Macon, Georgia – editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index and member of the First Baptist Church of Christ in Macon – sums up, for his readers, the reason why the South is at war, and explains that the South will triumph because African…
By the dawn of the Civil War, the schooling of America’s children is no longer in the strong grip of Protestant Christians. Following the formation of the United States of America and the enactment of church state separation, as well as Thomas Jefferson’s plea for a common education system for all, Protestant Christians nonetheless maintained…
In the pages of the current edition of the Tennessee Baptist, readers learn of a proposal advocating new uniforms for the students of Mary Sharp College, a female Baptist institution in Tennessee. A shortage of northern goods, including clothing, is already plaguing the South. But the South has plenty of cotton that can be made…