This week the editor of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald takes objection to Baptist newspapers in the North criticizing as “slander” an editorial he recently wrote. “The point I made was simply this: that fearful outrages had been perpetrated on the people of the South that were not justified nor warranted by the recognized laws…
Today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald examines the prospects of denominational reunions in the aftermath of the war. Most will probably remain separate, the editorial suggests. Baptists, however, are the main focus of the author. “The Baptists, with as many discordant elements among them as any other denomination, but having no general ecclesiastical government, are left…
Southern Baptist leaders are busy at work rewriting the history of slavery as a kind, benevolent, godly institution. Today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald sketches the argument, a narrative of the past that is blatantly false and self-serving, married to a trajectory of a racially-unequal future that is decidedly deceitful and disingenuous. In addition, the fanciful…