During the antebellum and Civil War years most, but not all, Southern Baptist ministers harbored loyalties for the Confederacy. Of those who were Unionists, sympathies with the Union remained buried, or at least subdued. James Ryland Kendrick is one such example. Born in Poultney, Virginia in 1821, he graduated from Hamilton Seminary (New York) and…
The Civil War era bisects the early decades of expanding Baptist scholarship North and South. Higher educational opportunities for Baptists of the North were introduced with the founding of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1764, after which more Baptists institutions, both North and South, were birthed in the early nineteenth century. By the…
Today’s annual meeting of the Erie Baptist Association of New York echoes many other Northern Baptist associations this fall in terms of expressing support for emancipation of slaves and the war against Southern slavery. One Erie Baptist resolution succintly summarizes the association’s beliefs in terms of war and slavery: Resolved, That we have special occasion…