Christian Nationalism abounds among Baptists of the South, a people of faith whose heritage of church state separation makes for an uneasy alliance with the Confederacy. Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, is but one of many Baptists who put aside faith heritage in order to proclaim the Confederate States of America as…
Perry Lee Hickox, born in 1840 in Wayne County, Georgia, is from a large Baptist family in south Georgia, one of twenty-one children, fifteen of whom survive infancy. Perry’s father, David, is from Connecticut. He moved South upon obtaining a land grant in south Georgia, and married Sarah Altman of Wayne County (this was David’s…
Today, Sunday, is a national Confederate Day of Thanksgiving, as proclaimed by the Confederate Congress on July 22, the day after the great victory at Bull Run / Manassas. The Congress has asked churches throughout the land to devote the day to thanking God and asking for God’s continued blessing upon his chosen nation: Resolved,…