With increasing frequency and fervency, Southern Baptists are struggling to reconcile rapidly-declining Confederate fortunes with their faith in the God of the Confederacy. Obviously, God is punishing the white race of the South. For much of the war, many cries of repentance and promises of changed behavior have been voiced. Some have even dared to…
Today Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky and a Confederate supporter, journals her anxieties about her nation and family. Have been busy about many things to day, but one subject is on my mind and in my heart almost forever when awake, let me be doing what I…
This week, readers of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index receive a good dose of commentary concerning the need to allow African slaves to read the Bible. The argument takes place against the backdrop of some laws in the Confederate states that disallow the practice, growing out of a suspicion that reading skills will further foster…