Even as U.S. President Abraham Lincoln seeks to understand God’s purpose in the war, his present faith journey hearkening back to his Baptist roots, white Baptists of the South join white southerners at large in mocking Lincoln in ways vivid and cruel. The Athens Georgia Southern Watchman newspaper, read by many Baptists of the city…
Southern Baptist educational institutions are falling upon hard financial times. Many students have marched off to war, while funding is shrinking as the war drags on into winter. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina is among the struggling institutions. The seminary is now scrambling to secure enough funding to remain solvent, while…
For home front Baptists of the South, life marches on, tension and emotionally-filled that it may be. Sunday worship services and certain other religious ceremonies offer moments of normalcy during a time that is anything but normal. One such ceremony is that of the ordination of ministers. Such an event takes place today in Virginia,…