During the gloominess that hangs over a despondent Confederacy, many white southerners cling to the hope that the past can yet be restored into a glorious future. Samuel Boykin, editor of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index and since prior to the war a dreamer of a glorious future for the Confederate nation, obliges the persistent…
Are some white Southern Baptists delusional regarding the war? Less than two months before war broke out between the South and the North, Georgia Baptist Christian Index editor Samuel Boykin, reflecting the excitement of Southern politicians heady with secession fever, envisioned unparalleled greatness for the new Confederate States of America: Expansion, too will be its…
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…