White southerners are defending African slavery by the Bible, sword, blood … and southern literature. The Civil War has brought added urgency to an ongoing southern effort to lend literary credibility to a society and culture based on African slavery. Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder makes note of this scholarly effort on the part of…
Women in Baptist life of the South — reflecting southern life at large — play a support role to the male gender. Whereas Baptist women preachers and deaconneses in the mid-18th century were not uncommon in some southern colonies, such roles for females have long since been abandoned in Baptist life. In the present war,…
Some Baptists of the South are concerned that pulpits are being abandoned because of war-caused disorder. Today, Tennessee Baptist editor James R. Graves (widely known as J. R. Graves) publishes a letter from a Texas Baptist who asks, “Shall Preaching Be Abandoned?” Bro. Graves:–Suffer a young Baptist, through your paper to address all who profess…