Today Georgia’s Sarepta Baptist Association meets in annual session, gathering at Millstone Church in Oglethorpe County to pray and preach and lift each other in the face of sober news trickling down to them after the battle of Chickamauga. Although Confederate forces won the battle, the rebels lost more soldiers than did the invaders, and…
As the magnitude of the Confederate losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg sink into the public consciousness of the South, Christian Index editor and Southern Baptist journalist Samuel Boykin offers his perspective on the crisis at hand, emphatically declaring the inevitable triumph of Southern white supremacy. [The Crisis of our National Affairs] Is undoubtedly upon us,…
While many Southern Baptist leaders openly advocate for Confederate Baptist army chaplains, not all are convinced that chaplains are needed in the army. A recent letter writer to the Georgia Baptist Christian Index denounced the concept, and this week a rebuttal is offered from an anonymous Confederate Baptist chaplain. I notice in the Index, of…