As it has done on a number of occasions in recent months, the South Carolina Confederate Baptist, edited by Jacob M. C. Breaker, again blasts Christians of the Confederacy, including many Baptists, who insist on further entwining church and state in the already de facto Christian Confederate States of America. Church state union is a…
Many in the Confederacy have reacted quite negatively to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. The policy provides a way for Confederate citizens to pledge loyalty to the United States and thus receive a pardon, while also setting in place a plan to, over time, re-incorporate into the United States those…
Today is a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer in the Confederate States of America. A brief commentary in the North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, in anticipation of this day, places the occasion in context. …The proclamation is timely, and we hope the day will be generally observed. Our affairs have reached a crisis. Bragg…