War-time excitement does not prevent many white Baptists of the South from engaging in ongoing religious debates whose origins predate the war. One ongoing Baptist debate is over the issue of Landmarkism, a formal movement with origins in the early 1850s and expressing the belief that Baptist are the only true Christians, or said another…
Home front readers of the current Tennessee Baptist are provided with a humorous account of Confederate camp life, a story poking fun at what is otherwise a dreaded event: cholera. The following account is penned by an unnamed soldier: A correspondent writing from the regimental rendezvous, in Dallas county, Texas, gives the following spicy account…
Today at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Tyler, Texas, church members try to untangle the truth regarding charges brought against one of their own. The charges are explosive: Bro. Isaac Taylor, the accused, is charged with lying, treason, and immorality. Representing an unusual case for a Baptist church conference meeting (because of Baptists’ historic…