As delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention depart Savannah, Georgia, to journey back to their homes, newspapers throughout the South report on the convention meeting. The Richmond Times Dispatch’s reporting of the Savannah gathering focuses on statements by SBC president Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore, Maryland: Let me but utter…
While the Southern Baptist Convention continues meeting at First Baptist Church, Savannah – aligning Southern Baptists with the Confederacy and speaking the language of Christian Nationalism – certain other Baptists in the city view things quite a bit differently. Today is the ordination service of Ulysses L. Houston, formerly a clerk and then a deacon…
Today the Southern Baptist Convention convenes in Savannah, Georgia at the city’s First Baptist Church (pictured). Attendance is down due to the war. Yet much of what takes place follows the same pattern of previous assemblages, since the founding of the SBC in 1845: committees are appointed, reports are read, and a convention president is…