The Middle District Baptist Association of Virginia convenes and delegates position themselves squarely on the side of the Confederacy. Speaking Christian nationalist language, the association declares, “if a people drew the sword in behalf of a just cause, we are that people.” Many other Southern Baptist associations have already, or will soon, openly align themselves…
For months, many Northern Baptists have been agitating the U.S. Congress to pass a confiscation act that will permanently free African slaves. Today, their wishes, as well as those of many Northern Christians at large, are granted, as Congress passes the Second Confiscation Act that is, in effect, an emancipation proclamation that grants permanent freedom…
An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index addresses the primary of family and the moral foundations of the Confederacy, explaining that the future of the nation rests upon the shoulders of today’s Caucasian parents, who must train up their white, male children in the (Southern) ways of God. Religion, to exhibit its loveliest…