Today Liberty Baptist Church in Wilkinson County, Ga, gathers for a monthly business meeting. The third item on the agenda is a request from Richard L. Lavender “to take him under the watch care of the church until he returns from the war and wright (sic) to him on the subject.” Presumably church clerk Wiley…
Baptist leaders and churches of the Confederacy express little to no remorse over church members killing their Northern brethren in the fight to maintain African slavery. Nor do most doubt that slavery is the lot of the black race. Personal immorality of church members serving in the Confederate Army, however, is another matter altogether. The…
Richmond’s Daily Dispatch today carries a story about the growing revival in Confederate army camps in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia. Baptists and others are reaping the benefits of the spirit’s movement. John L. Burrows is the pastor of Richmond’s prominent First Baptist Church. In addition to pastoring, during the war Burrows ministers diligently to Virginia’s…