Against the backdrop of the year drawing to a close, readers learn details of Southern Baptist Convention mission efforts in a report from Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald newspaper that is republished in other Baptist newspapers of the South. Reflecting the currently shuttered status of the Richmond organization, the news contained in the missions report is…
Festive moments are hard to come by for many families during the nearly two-year old war. Few are the families not impacted by the great conflict, and times of laughter and joy inevitably fade away against the backdrop of a vast canvas of death and destruction from which there is no true escape. And yet,…
Baptist higher education carries on in the North, against the backdrop of war. Today, as the year draws toward a close, Franklin College president Silas Bailey, in the face of an illness, resigns as president of the Indiana Baptist school. Bailey has been a leader of Indiana Baptists, served in pastoral roles and spoken vocally…