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." ...

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 ...

Chapman's legacy as SBC Executive Committee chief executive for 18 years is that he was a source of stability in the aftermath of schism.

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