Editor Samuel Boykin of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, frequent commentator regarding war news and views, this week offers his thoughts on “The Ministry: Its duty and responsibility in the present state of the country.” While loyal to the Confederacy, and at times positing the Confederate States of America as God’s Kingdom on earth, Boykin at…
Christian Nationalism abounds among Baptists of the South, a people of faith whose heritage of church state separation makes for an uneasy alliance with the Confederacy. Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, is but one of many Baptists who put aside faith heritage in order to proclaim the Confederate States of America as…
In the state where southern treason against the United States began, South Carolina’s Southern Baptists convene in Spartanburg for the second day of their annual meeting. Most white southerners, however, consider the rebellion not as treason, but rather as the proper response of slaveholding states to the perceived hostility of non-slaveholding states and northern…