Even as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln seeks to understand God’s purpose in the war, his present faith journey hearkening back to his Baptist roots, white Baptists of the South join white southerners at large in mocking Lincoln in ways vivid and cruel. The Athens Georgia Southern Watchman newspaper, read by many Baptists of the city…
A report of conditions in army hospitals is making the rounds in Southern Baptist newspapers. Originally appearing in the Mississippi Baptist paper, the war commentary, like so many other war-related articles that are printed in a given Baptist periodical of the South, is shared with other Baptist readers throughout the Confederacy. Religious comfort and instruction…
Southern Baptist educational institutions are falling upon hard financial times. Many students have marched off to war, while funding is shrinking as the war drags on into winter. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina is among the struggling institutions. The seminary is now scrambling to secure enough funding to remain solvent, while…