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Baptists and the American Civil War: November 17, 1864

While black Baptists of the South joyfully celebrate their growing liberation from slavery and into freedom, many white Baptists pray all the harder for God to save the Southern regime of white supremacy and black enslavement. Today in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Dr. Lansing Burrows, pastor of the city’s First Baptist Church, opens the…

November 17, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
Samuel Boykin

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 31, 1862

Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index newspaper, this week offers commentary on how the Confederacy, a Christian nation, should treat their enemies–Northerners. The religion of Jesus announced a rule of conduct which amazed the philosophy of the world.–Love your enemies and pray for them. Human teachers had dreamed of no such charity. Paganism…

July 31, 2012 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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