In the winter months, and especially during the holiday season, soldiers often have much time on their hands. While not all military movements are suspended, many regiments in colder climates are hunkered down, living in tents and braving the elements as best they can. Reading is a popular pastime now in the Confederate camps, and…
Among Southern Baptists, the drumbeat continues: extortioners must be shamed into repenting of their sins so that God can unleash his blessings upon the Confederacy and bring the war to an end. Today’s missive comes from Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index. While published this day, the editorial was penned in the midst of the Battle of…
Extortion, extortion, extortion. Southern Baptist opinion-shapers hammer home, week after week, the narrative of extortion as the sin of the Confederacy–a sin that is delaying inevitable victory over the United States. For the Confederacy to collect on God’s promise to carry his chosen people to victory, greed in the South must first be eradicated. Some…