Christian editors and writers in the slave-based Confederacy, a nation whose constitution invokes “the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” continue their quest to identity the sins of the nation. In this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index, in the agonizing wake of the losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, an editorial argues that the leaders of…
Many Baptists of the South continue displaying inconsistency regarding their heritage of church state separation (despite verbal affirmation). In many ways, the Civil War has led them to take stances foreign to their faith of the past, including advocacy of and loyalty to their nation as a Christian nation that should be governed by biblical…
Southern Baptists on the home front are fed a steady diet of depressing news from Confederate Army camps. The bearers of the bad news in the Southern Baptist press are soldiers, army chaplains, army missionaries, army evangelists and news correspondents. In addition to death and illness, lamentations regarding army camps decry the sin and decadence,…