The war depletes many Southern Baptist churches of their menfolk. Church officers are not exempt from the male exodus, as exemplified by Jacob Eliot of Corsicana, Texas. Born in New York in 1803 and raised in Kentucky, at the age of 46 Eliot moved to Navarro County, Texas, with his wife, children, and grandchildren. Purchasing…
Today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index offers a spirited defense of African slavery while arguing that slaves should at least be allowed to read the Bible, a practice long illegal in some Confederate states. As such, some white Baptists position themselves against a view popular among white Confederates at large that by learning to read, slaves…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reports on the recent meeting of the Flat River Baptist Association, a body of Baptists who address the war directly (many, but not all Baptist associations of the South do so at some point during the war). Your committee on the State of the country, respectfully submit the following: The…