In today’s edition of the North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, editor J. D. Hufham skips over specific news of battle developments, news that is simply too troublesome to be able to paste over with optimistic platitudes. Instead, Hufham turns to that most trusted of sources among Baptists: the Bible. The editor’s message to North Carolina…
By the war years, white Baptists’ profession of belief in a literal Bible has become the norm throughout the South. As such, critics of a literal biblical interpretation, whether they be Christian or not, are often refuted and scoffed at by Southern Baptist divines. Many such critics are abolitionists, while others are learned individuals who…
In tandem with the plunging prospects of the Confederate States of America are Southern whites’ escalating condemnations of the evil, abolitionist United States. To be certain, Southern whites even prior to the war pinned the blame for secession on Northern abolitionists while proudly proclaiming the South’s determination to fight with all their might for the…