News of the Union occupation of Nashville is filtering throughout the South, accompanied by no little alarm. Days will pass before the Baptist press is able to comment on this unfortunate turn of events for the Confederacy. At the moment, however, a currently circulating editorial by Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, offers…
The fortunes of the Confederate States are temporarily reversed, but J. D. Hufham assures his readers that God will crown the South with victory if white southerners will but be faithful to him and utilize the weapons he has placed in their hands: The condition of the South has never been more startling than it…
The Civil War era is marked by a number of religious subplots that involve Baptists. One such narrative is the birth and early years of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. In the early 1820s, a Vermont Baptist minister, William Miller, became convinced that Postmillennialism (the prevailing Christian view, in the Western world, of the second coming…