The Seventh-Day Baptist Central Association, meeting this month at the First Sabbath Day Baptist Church of Verona, New York, passes a resolution on slavery that echoes a resolution authored by the late Baptist leader John Leland and embraced by Virginia Baptists in 1789. The Central Association declares: Resolved, That the members of this Association regard…
Joseph Addison Turner (1826-1868), long-time writer and now editor of The Countryman, a newspaper published from Turner’s Putnam County, Georgia plantation–Turnwold–today affirms the Baptist & Banner newspaper’s recent addition of a literary department to the publication. In this same edition of his paper, Turner publishes an unusual story about the late Baptist giant John Leland,…
Today the United States and Confederate armies clash in Culpeper County, Virginia. In the early years of the American nation, this area was Baptist giant John Leland’s stomping grounds. In those days, Leland preached religious liberty for all and church state separation. Now, many Southern Baptists still cling to “religious liberty” language yet consider the…