This month the Holston Baptist Association of Tennessee passes a resolution asking that pro-Confederate Baptist churches apologize for their sin of supporting the Confederacy: “The war was wrong, … and it has caused the troubles which are existing in the Baptist churches. Therefore, we would recommend that all members who voted for separation, or voluntarily…
Southern Baptist newspaper editors in the post-war months find much to criticize about the religious newspapers of the North. This week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald accuses the “Northern Religious Press” of “Secularity.” Pretending surprise of “the degree in which the religious papers of the North are devoted to politics,” the writer is silent on the…
In Virginia’s eastern panhandle Freewill Baptists, under the leadership of Rev. Nathan Cook Brackett, lead the way in helping establish Freedmen’s schools. A native of Maine and in the closing months an assistant field agent with the United States Christian Commission in Winchester, Virginia, Brackett following the conclusion of the war suggested that Freewill Baptists…