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Article: According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2005
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According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970. By Alan Scot Willis. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 260 pp.
Alan Scot Willis presents an honest, balanced, and forthright account of how the Southern Baptist hierarchy tried to persuade their congregations and pastors of the rightness and biblical correctness of an integrated society. After the Second World War, it became painfully apparent to missionaries that the second global conflict was predominately a race war, and, not surprisingly, the victorious Allies often experienced rebellions in their colonies. Southern Baptist missionaries, mostly from ...