The Seventh-Day Baptist Central Association, meeting this month at the First Sabbath Day Baptist Church of Verona, New York, passes a resolution on slavery that echoes a resolution authored by the late Baptist leader John Leland and embraced by Virginia Baptists in 1789. The Central Association declares: Resolved, That the members of this Association regard…
The Baptist General Association of Virginia convenes today in the Confederate capital city of Richmond. Delegates are seated, officers elected and committees formed. One of the appointed committees is tasked with composing an address on the state of the country and the duty of Christians to support the Confederacy. Another committee is tasked with composing…
The war routinely causes confusion in Baptist congregations located in areas of the South where battles take place or where the United States army is otherwise present. Services are frequently disrupted, sometimes for months or years on end, as the war rages on. Today is a day of discord for the New Garden Baptist Church,…