This month the Holston Baptist Association of Tennessee passes a resolution asking that pro-Confederate Baptist churches apologize for their sin of supporting the Confederacy: “The war was wrong, … and it has caused the troubles which are existing in the Baptist churches. Therefore, we would recommend that all members who voted for separation, or voluntarily…
The New York Times today reprints a speech on slavery delivered by Kentucky Baptist layman and U.S. Congressman Green Clay Smith (1826-1895). Smith served as a Second Lieutenant in the Army during the Mexican War, after which he graduated from Transylvania University and then practiced law with his father, John Speed Smith, an attorney and…
James M. Pendleton is a well-known Baptist preacher and newspaper editor (assistant editor of the Tennessee Baptist) in Tennessee and among many other rural Baptists in portions of the South. He is also the author of an influential book, An Old Landmark Re-Set (Old Landmarks Revisited), published in 1856 and the figurehead volume advocating Landmarkism…