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…
Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration and his call to raise troops creates added tension within uncommitted southern states. Today, the Arkansas secession convention votes against secession by a 39 to 35 vote. Yet, the divided state delegates then unanimously vote to put the secession question before the people of the state in a referendum scheduled for August.…