A first-rate history of Baptists in America. One of the earliest historians of the Baptists in America, David Benedict, writing in 1813, recognized that they were seen as "the dregs of Christendom." ...
A worship session at the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting on June 10, 2025, in Dallas. AP Photo/Richard W. Rodriguez The Southern Baptist Convention has lost 3.6 million members over ...
The American (Northern) Baptists are establishing new churches at the rate of one every seven days. This note of boom set the tone for the American Baptists’ 46th annual convention last week, as 3,311 ...
I felt that I had to resign, I should resign and therefore, I did resign,’ Lyons said about stepping down as denominational president in 1999.
Chapman's legacy as SBC Executive Committee chief executive for 18 years is that he was a source of stability in the ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such ...
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