In the midst of a war pitting two opposing views of God, the Bible and Christianity against one another, journalist Samuel Clemens in Nevada adopts the pen name of Mark Twain. Following the war, Twain gains fame as a humorist. He also becomes known as a satirist and critic of Christianity and the Bible. While…
Not all white Southerners are supporters of the Confederacy. Throughout the mountainous regions of the South in particular, an area where slaves are a relative rarity while poor whites struggle to eke out a living from the land, strong pro-Union sentiment was present prior to the war and remains to this day, increasing as the…
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation has energized the North in the war for freedom for all. Meanwhile, Southern Baptist leaders do their part to encourage white Southerners in their quest to forever enshrine white supremacy and African slavery in the Confederate States. This week, J. D. Hufham, editor of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder,…