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Not an Easy Journey: Some Transitions in Baptist Life.(Book review)
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Baptist History and Heritage
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January 1, 2008
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- Brackney, William H.; Cherry, Millard R.
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Baptist History and Heritage Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Not An Easy Journey: Some Transitions in Baptist Life. By Walter B. Shurden. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2005. 310 pp.
In the last decade or so there has been a resurgence of published collections of essays and festschrift volumes honoring various members in the Baptist family and beyond. This book belongs to that genre. In this case, Walter B. Shurden, Callaway Professor of Christianity and executive director of the Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University, who retired in December 2007, was encouraged by Mercer Press director Marc Jolley to gather his best essays into a single volume. One should place this work alongside the festschrift done in Shurden's ...
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'THEY'RE REWRITING BAPTIST HISTORY'.(NEWS)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);
June 15, 2000 ;
Huba, Stephen;
546 words
......Northern Kentucky to the Southern Baptist Convention's ''no'' vote...They're rewriting Baptist history right now,'' said the...On Wednesday, the Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in...committee. Adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in 1963, the...binding on ...
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All That Fits a Woman: Training, Southern Baptist Women for Charity and...
The Journal of Southern History;
November 1, 2002 ;
Yohn, Susan M;
451 words
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Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;
September 1, 2007 ;
Nettles, Tom J;
787 words
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All That Fits a Woman: Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and...
Journal of Southern History;
November 1, 2002 ;
Yohn, Susan M.;
430 words
......conservatism that has characterized much of Southern Baptist history. T. Laine Scales's book is a reminder...institutional roots. Scales argues that the Southern Baptist's Woman's Missionary Union (WMU...or to compare the experiences of Southern Baptist women with those of ...
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All According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race,...
International Bulletin of Missionary Research;
October 1, 2005 ;
Wills, David W.;
395 words
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Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War
The Journal of Southern History;
August 1, 2007 ;
Rutledge, Jeremy;
484 words
...Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War. Edited...preface to Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War, Carl...composed entirely of disaffected Southern Baptist voices. What follows is a...
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Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War.(Book review)
Journal of Southern History;
August 1, 2007 ;
Rutledge, Jeremy;
479 words
...Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War. Edited...preface to Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War, Carl...composed entirely of disaffected Southern Baptist voices. What follows is a...
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ADL Condemns Southern Baptist Leader's Comparison of Judaism to a 'Deadly...
U.S. Newswire;
June 19, 2003 ;
272 words
......outrageous and offensive" the remarks of a Southern Baptist leader who, in calling for renewed...tumor." In a speech June 16 to the Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship, a gathering...Jews, Al Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville...
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SPREADING THE WORD NEW SOUTHERN BAPTIST LEADER GOES ON TOUR TO PROMOTE...
The Boston Globe;
September 5, 2004 ;
Michael Paulson Globe Staff;
787 words
......Bobby Welch, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention is jauntily working his...English-speaking, predominantly Greek, Southern Baptist congregation in Newton Corner. He...her. Will either prospect become a Southern Baptist? Welch who has embarked on an ambitious...
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Southern Baptist fundamentalists retain control
Chicago Sun-Times;
June 15, 1988 ;
Daniel J. Lehmann;
557 words
......Fundamentalists retained their hold on the Southern Baptist Convention Tuesday with a razor-thin...said the Rev. Alan Neely of the Southern Baptist Alliance. "Diversity that has characterized...channels for people who are loyal to Southern Baptist principles to follow." He urged ...
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Southern Baptist initiative focuses on gays: Group urges homosexuals to...
Charleston Gazette;
June 18, 2003 ;
The Associated Press;
596 words
...PHOENIX - The Southern Baptist Convention announced a new initiative...presentation included testimony from a Southern Baptist pastor from Texas who said he...16 million members. "If the Southern Baptist Convention embraces such an...
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Southern Baptist Church apologizes to Blacks for its historic role in
Philadelphia Tribune, The;
July 21, 1995 ;
Michael Dabney;
787 words
......Philadelphia Tribune, The 07-21-1995 Southern Baptist Church apologizes to Blacks for its...month during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) at the Georgia Dome...eradicate racism in all forms from Southern Baptist life and ministry." One Black member...
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'Purpose-Driven,' still Southern Baptist
Chicago Sun-Times;
September 2, 2005 ;
118 words
......of The Purpose-Driven Life, told the Southern Baptist Convention's news service his huge Saddleback...remains in that denomination. "I'm Southern Baptist, our church is Southern Baptist, and we cooperate in SBC missions support...
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Profile: Split between moderate Texas Baptists and the Southern Baptist...
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR);
February 10, 2001 ;
SCOTT SIMON;
787 words
......between moderate Texas Baptists and the Southern Baptist Convention Host: SCOTT SIMON Time...Baptists cut the money they gave to the Southern Baptist Convention by more than $4 million...Texas, nearly 6,000 churches, say the Southern Baptist Convention's politics and theology...
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ADL CONDEMNS SOUTHERN BAPTIST LEADER
United Press International;
June 19, 2003 ;
182 words
......International 06-19-2003 ADL condemns Southern Baptist leader NEW YORK, Jun 19, 2003 (United...League (ADL) Thursday condemned a Southern Baptist leader for comparing Judaism with...deadly tumor." The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Al Mohler, made...
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