North Carolina Baptists learn of good news in the Confederate camps near Richmond, Virginia, in an article in this week’s Biblical Recorder: A few weeks since a number of Testaments were sent into a camp near [Richmond, Virginia]. The religious soldiers immediately determined to organize themselves into a Sunday School, and to invite their comrades…
With the South’s race-based culture, social structures and economy at stake in what has become a lingering war, white Southern thinkers, politicians, writers and elites spend no little energy philosophically defending Southern life and speculating about the future. Defeat, at least in public discourse, is an impossible outcome of the war, for it would signal…
The Oak Ridge Baptist Church of Kenton County, Kentucky, meets today for the congregation’s monthly business session. A later-published history of the church summarizes the meeting: Bro. A. W. Mullins was chosen pastor for one year. Permission was granted to a sister, by a vote of the church, to appeal to the law when necessary…