Numerous Southern Baptist opinion shapers are now doing their best to establish love of money as the Confederacy’s national sin. Insisting that a retreat from the evil of greed will allow God to cut short his chastisement of their Christian nation–currently expressed in the surprisingly prolonged nature of their war with the abolitionist North–and effect…
The Stamping Ground Baptist Church in Scott County, Kentucky represents a common historical trajectory of many Baptist congregations formed in the South at the turn of the 19th century. Founded by Baptist pioneers relocating to the Southern frontier, the Stamping Ground church from its inception is comprised of both white and black members, the latter…
Southern Baptists’ Foreign Mission Board, located in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, has been decimated by the war and forced to pull back from its foreign operations. Communication with missionaries on foreign fields is severed, while the ability of the Board to pay missionaries’ salaries has been compromised by both the lack of contact…