Baptists in America.(Book review)

Church History;  September 1, 2008 ;   Byrd, James P.;   787 words ......1017/S0009640708001509 Baptists in America. By Bill J...and divisiveness of Baptist life in the United States. Most impressively, Baptists in America builds on...Will, and Independent Baptists, among others. Informed...contemporary positions. Baptists always defy simple ...

Pilgrim Pathways: Essays in Baptist History in Honour of B. R. White

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  September 1, 2001 ;   Patterson, James A;   787 words ......diversity of English Baptists and the integral...covenant theology in Baptist life. The current...covenant" as used by Baptists throughout their...contemporary Baptist life appear to minimize...ecclesiastical life of the Baptists' English Separatist...1836) had on ...

BAPTIST LIFE IN RED-INK BIND \ NEW LEADER FACES SOME TOUGH CHOICES.(News)

The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  October 17, 2003 ;   Eigelbach, Kevin;   727 words ......CEO Bob Long's first priorities for Baptist Life Communities, which operates the Baptist...probably what they'll lose this year. Baptist Life Communities got into a financial hole...complex peaked at about 50 percent. Baptist Life Community officials said last fall that...

Baptists of all stripes shy away from Phelps

Oakland Tribune;  November 10, 2007 ;   Terry Mattingly;   710 words ......There are all kinds of Baptists, so saying people are "Baptists" may do little to clarify...that millions of other Baptists wish Phelps and his infamous...stop calling themselves "Baptists." "It does make you cringe...connections to Southern Baptists or to American Baptists or to ...

BAPTIST MAN WHO HAS LED CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION TO SPEAK AT SUFFOLK...

The Virginian Pilot;  August 30, 1998 ;   Szabo, Liz;   787 words ......Tenn.-based Southern Baptists are the country's largest...There are about 100,000 Baptists in Hampton Roads, including 45,000 Southern Baptists, according to the Norfolk...their size, the Southern Baptists are a divided house...The core of Southern Baptists who remain seem to ...

Baptists in America

The Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2006 ;   Crowley, John;   462 words ...Baptists in America. By Bill J. Leonard. Columbia Contemporary...and author of several previous books on the Baptists of America, as well as a veteran of the wars of the Southern Baptist Convention. In the preface he relates his own...reader a clear idea of where he stands in the Baptist battlefront. ...

Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South

South Carolina Historical Magazine;  January 1, 2002 ;   Taylor, Scott L;   787 words ...Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South. By A. James Fuller. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana...story of Basil Manly is a personal witness not merely of Baptist life in the Old South, but of the transformation both of that...

Baptists in the Balance: The Tension Between Freedom and Responsibility

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  September 1, 1999 ;   McGoldrick, James Edward;   423 words ...Baptists in the Balance: The Tension Between Freedom and Responsibility. Edited by Everett...the editor and the twenty-four contributors to this study of problems facing Baptists today. The unusually full introduction traces the historical development of Baptists in America and shows that conflicts among ...

Southern Baptists Push Catholic Ties

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 17, 1994 ;   David Briggs;   384 words ......and endorsed better relations between Baptists and Roman Catholics. "We live in a land...delegates places no limits on the freedom of Baptists to persuade other Christians to switch...Conference of Catholic Bishops. Since 1971, Baptists and Catholics have conducted informal...

Baptists around the World: A Comprehensive Handbook

Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  December 1, 1998 ;   Howson, Barry;   679 words ...Baptists around the World: A Comprehensive Handbook. Edited by...This marks the first time that such a worldwide study of Baptists has been attempted. As D. Lotz writes in the foreword, it is "a quick reference work to give a bird's eye view of Baptists in every conceivable geographical area of the world...

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH BEGINS NEW ERA.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the Editor)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  October 4, 2004 ;     409 words ...Byline: Ken Massey Baptists have been in and...taking place in Baptist life. Most of us grew...landscape. Many Baptists are discovering...ties with Southern Baptist people. We did judge...over the world. Baptists are known for our...

Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old...

Church History;  June 1, 2001 ;   Harvey, Paul;   280 words ...Chaplain to the Confederacy: Basil Manly and Baptist Life in the Old South. By A. James Fuller. Baton Rouge: Louisiana...Confederacy, Manly led a life paradigmatic of the rise of Baptists to respectability and influence. Manly was both preacher...

10 reasons to write about Baptists.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 13, 2002 ;   Jones, Jim;   604 words ...Why do you write so much about Baptists? I'm often asked. At a Baptist news conference...Baptist leaders: Most of my readers are not Baptists. So tell me why is it important to write...own top 10 reasons for writing about Baptists. Here is my list: No. 10: Baptists are...

Southern Baptist Convention faces declining membership

Winnipeg Free Press;  June 15, 2008 ;   Hodges, Sam;   656 words ......sense that we're at something of a crossroads in Southern Baptist life," said the Rev. Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church...the SBC's "market share" is sliding. "For now, Southern Baptists are a denomination in decline," concluded Ed Stetzer, a...witnessing are far rarer than they used to be in ...

The Story of Baptists in the United States.(Book review)

Journal of Church and State;  September 22, 2006 ;   Gourley, Bruce T.;   556 words ......United States is surprisingly unfamiliar to many Baptists in twenty-first-century America. Fortunately...photographs and other visual aids, The Story of Baptists in the United States offers an excellent starting...approaches. Whereas Leonard examines the history of Baptists worldwide from social, ...