The writings and sermons of Charles Spurgeon, perhaps the best-known Baptist preacher in the world, remain unwelcome in the Confederate States of America. A long-outspoken opponent of African slavery and a minister in a nation (England) that has spurned Confederate offers of a military alliance, Spurgeon this month, in his London Metropolitan Tabernacle, returns to…
Joseph Addison Turner (1826-1868), long-time writer and now editor of The Countryman, a newspaper published from Turner’s Putnam County, Georgia plantation–Turnwold–today affirms the Baptist & Banner newspaper’s recent addition of a literary department to the publication. In this same edition of his paper, Turner publishes an unusual story about the late Baptist giant John Leland,…
Support of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation from Northern Baptists continues unabated. Today, the New York Baptist Convention unanimously approves a resolution in support of the Lincoln administration. Avoiding Christian nationalistic rhetoric, the statement voices harsh condemnation of the slave-based Confederacy and takes for granted that God wills freedom for all persons. Whereas…