Midwesterners’ loyalties are divided, the region having for years been a lightning rod as the nation fought over whether or not slavery should be allowed in the region. Anti-slavery sentiment ultimately won the political battle, but the tension in the region ultimately had contributed to the coming of war. While the state of Missouri remains…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reports on the recent meeting of the Flat River Baptist Association, a body of Baptists who address the war directly (many, but not all Baptist associations of the South do so at some point during the war). Your committee on the State of the country, respectfully submit the following: The…
Not all Southern Baptist churches are happy with the state of affairs in the Confederacy. A growing propensity for Confederate army units to drill on the Sabbath is particularly offensive to many Baptists of the South, who seemingly have forgotten that only a few years earlier Baptists in America at large, champions of church state…