Until the present, Thanksgiving observances have been state-specific affairs largely confined to the New England region and, to a lesser extent, the North at large. There has been no consistency in terms of the timing of the observances, with many prior observances occurring early in a given year. Since 1846, however, American writer and editor…
A pseudonymous Baptist from Jefferson, Georgia this week poses (among other queries) the question of why some Baptist churches of the Confederacy are not allowing African slave members to sing in church services. I see a practice beginning to take root and develope itself in some of our country churches, against which I enter my…
The bi-annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention assembles today in the Green Street Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia (a location chosen after the original plan to meet in Columbia, Mississippi was jeopardized by the presence of the United States Army in the state). As in 1845 (the year of the formation of the SBC),…