Southern Baptists, like other southerners, miss many northern goods because of war-related trade sanctions. Yet in one respect, Baptists of the South voice gladness that a particular northern industry has been marginalized: as of this week, Bible publication is no longer dependent upon northern printing presses. The Tennessee Baptist thus reports: The first set of…
Wayne County, Kentucky, is deeply conflicted. Economically tied to the North and having familial connections with the South, Kentucky families and neighbors in this land in which slavery is much less central than in the Deep South are divided, with emotions running high. The rapid unraveling of harmony is now on intense display in Wayne…
Not one to mince words or skirt around issues, Samuel Boykin of Macon, Georgia – editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index and member of the First Baptist Church of Christ in Macon – sums up, for his readers, the reason why the South is at war, and explains that the South will triumph because African…