Today a new Baptist congregation is founded in the South. Unlike most in the immediate post-war years of the South, it is a white congregation. At the First Baptist Church, then located on the northeast corner of Second Street and Adams Street in Memphis, Tennessee, the Central Baptist Church is established. It is composed of…
Today’s edition of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald continues efforts to reconstruct the Old Confederacy as a righteous slave regime that was overwhelmed by the military might of an ungodly Northern people. Upset that Missouri is requiring all ministers to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States, Southern Baptists lament that the mandate…
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, during the war a member of the Confederate States House of Representatives and an officer in the Confederate Army, is a prominent Southern Baptist. Now, he serves as the president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention and of Baptists’ Howard College. In January 1866 he is ordained to the Baptist ministry.…