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…
In a post-Gettysburg world, some Southern Baptist leaders begin considering the possibility that the South may lose the war. It is an unpleasant and distasteful thought, and such acknowledgments are tentative and limited. An editorial in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder takes a peek at what a Confederate loss may mean. As Southern Baptists…
A brief article in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder echoes advice from the South Carolina Confederate Baptist regarding church members who are growing corn partially to turn into whiskey, and partially to sell at high profits to the public, while food is ever more scarce in the South. The Confederate Baptist, in reply…