The war has forced both North and South into a prolonged, anguished and uneasy conversation about death. Baptists (as well as other persons of faith) discuss death at a level perhaps never before witnessed, crafting a narrative of a “good death”–a passing which is wrapped in the honor of sacrifice for family and nation and…
News from Gettysburg and Vicksburg has spread throughout the South, although thanks to the inefficiencies and shortcomings of communication, the facts are frequently interspersed with supposition and rumors. While yet uncertain of many details about Gettysburg, this week North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham breaks the sobering news of Confederate losses at…
James M. Pendleton is a well-known Baptist preacher and newspaper editor (assistant editor of the Tennessee Baptist) in Tennessee and among many other rural Baptists in portions of the South. He is also the author of an influential book, An Old Landmark Re-Set (Old Landmarks Revisited), published in 1856 and the figurehead volume advocating Landmarkism…