While Georgia’s Southern Baptist governor, Joseph Brown, is making headlines as the Georgia legislature is in session, some Southern Baptists in the state are talking about this week’s Christian Index editorial by editor Samuel Boykin. Confederate political and religious leaders remain defiant in their defense of slavery and certain that God is on their side.…
The deaths of Baptist Confederate soldiers now likely number in the thousands, whether from wounds or sickness. With increasing frequency, obituaries are published in Southern Baptist newspapers, often months after the death occurs, such as the following obituary in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index. Died in the army of the Confederate States, at Lynchburg with…
As the second anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War inches ever closer, many Baptist congregations of the South by this point have largely redirected their mission efforts to Confederate soldiers by collecting funds to support army chaplains and provide Christian literature to soldiers. Helping Baptist soldiers maintain their faith and evangelizing non-Christian soldiers…