Baptist History and Heritage articles from January 2006

Baptist History and Heritage archives from January 2006

Baptist Women around the World: the Baptist History and Heritage Society voted to dedicate the 2005 annual meeting to the topic "Women in Baptist History" and to issue an open call for papers.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... Nearly forty paper proposals were submitted, and twenty-eight were accepted and subsequently presented at our meeting held at Samford University. Many of those papers relating to Baptist women in America were published in the Summer/Fall 2005...

Society releases illustrated history of Baptists; proudly, the Baptist History and Heritage Society has just released its first major history of Baptists. The Story of Baptists in the United States is a 224-page, illustrated, and indexed work. The co-authors are Pamela Durso, BH&HS associate director, and Keith Durso, copy editor and writer.
January 1, 2006... "With vivid writing and fresh interpretations, the Dursos tell a story that should interest a very wide audience of Baptists who need to know more about themselves, and of 'outsiders' who wish to learn more about this powerful example of...

The Baptist light: free and fragile: in March 1993 the "Storm of the Century" inundated the Deep South. In a region where a dozen or so snowflakes in mid-air can lead to massive school closings, an inch has been known to bring all movement to a grinding halt.
January 1, 2006... In the space of a few nighttime hours that March, a snowstorm unlike any other in recent memory dumped over a foot of snow in some I portions of the Deep South, paralyzing north Georgia, north Alabama, and much of Tennessee and the Carolinas....

Angelina B. Buensuceso: harbinger of Baptist ordination of women in the Philippines: in 1934, a seventeen-year-old student named Angelina Belluga enrolled in the Baptist Missionary Training School (BMTS) in Iloilo City on Panay Island in the Philippines.
January 1, 2006... Her enrollment was the culmination of the first leg of a spiritual journey that had begun three years before. (1) It was the beginning of the second leg of a journey that still continues more than seventy years later. Who could have known at...

English Baptist women under persecution (1660-1688): a study of social conformity and dissent: the Baptist denomination in England experienced tremendous growth during the seventeenth century despite much opposition (1).
January 1, 2006... The Baptist denomination in England experienced tremendous growth during the seventeenth century despite much opposition. Persecution of Baptists and other dissenting groups reached its height between 1660 and 1688, the period known as the...

Women in cultural captivity: British Women and the Zenana mission: in a little pamphlet outlining the work of two British Baptist women, Marianne Lewis and Elizabeth Sale: Pioneers of Missionary Work Among women, (1) Ernest Payne remarked that 1792 was a key year for two publications.(Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen)(A Vindication of the Rights of Women)
January 1, 2006... Fist, William Carey wrote his Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen, (2) which would result in the formation of the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the...

Canadian Baptist mission work among women in Andhra, India, 1874-1924: Baptist women evolved a role for themselves in an otherwise male-dominated mission enterprise and a patriarchal Telugu society.
January 1, 2006... Many indigenous cultural factors affected the process of women playing an active role and seizing the initiative in the mission enterprise. Increasing women's assertion movements across the world at the dusk of the nineteenth century and the...

The role of women and women's issues in the Baptist World Alliance: in 2005, the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) celebrated the centennial anniversary of its inaugural meeting.
January 1, 2006... This international fellowship organization composed of over two hundred Baptist unions, conventions, fellowships, and other organizations is not an authoritative agency that determines orthodoxy for the participating groups, but it has...

Rebecca Anna Phillips: question of authority and gender among Primitive Baptists: Primitive Baptists in the nineteenth century took New Testament scriptures on the role of women as a mandate for women to be silent during worship.
January 1, 2006... Even today, Primitive Baptists follow nineteenth-century Victorian norms for the separation of male and female spheres. (1) Yet Rebecca Anna Phillips (Anna) wrote and published a spiritual autobiography and composed articles on biblical...

Jewell Legett and the social curriculum: the education of a Southern Baptist woman missionary at the WMU Training School, 1908-1909: Jewell Legett was twenty-four years old in 1908 when she traveled from her home in Port Lavaca, Texas, to enter the Woman's Missionary Union Training School (WMUTS) at Louisville, Kentucky.
January 1, 2006... Jewell planned to be a missionary and had the credentials to be a perfect candidate for the Southern Baptist mission field: the daughter of a Baptist "cowboy preacher"; a graduate of coeducational Baylor University, in Waco, Texas; and a...

The quiet revolutionary: Amelia Morton Bishop: following is the story of a simple Texas housewife, mother, sometime denominational worker (especially in the Woman's Missionary Union-WMU), church volunteer, school teacher, university professor, and free-lance writer. (1) That woman, Amelia Morton Bishop, now lives in Austin, Texas. To our way of thinking, she is a quiet revolutionary.(Biography)
January 1, 2006... The Early Years: 1920-1950 On New Year's Eve of 2004, Amelia Bishop ("Millie") celebrated her eighty-fourth birthday. (2) She was born on December 31, 1920, in Dallas, Texas, the only child of middle-aged parents, Walter and Alice Morton....

The story of Asenath Brewster: pioneer in urban missions and mentor of Southern Baptist Leaders: by the time Asenath Brewster was thirty-two years old in 1911, she had taken a leading role in sending her denomination's first missionaries abroad and in forming its women's missionary organization.(Biography)
January 1, 2006... To honor her efforts, the General Association of General Baptists, a small, Missouri-based denomination, named its annual Christmas mission offering in her honor. Yet, even the General Baptists know only the early part of her story. She is...

Women hymn writers and hymn tune composers in the Baptist Hymnal, 1991.
January 1, 2006... Writer/Composer Hymn Title/Tune Adams, Sarah F. (1805-1848) "Nearer, My God, to Thee," 458 Adkins, Donna (1940-) "Glorify thy name," GLORIFY THY ...

A Genetic History of Baptist Thought.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... A Genetic History of Baptist Thought. By William H. Brackney. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2004. 592 pp. A Genetic History of Baptist Thought is a fine book that surveys basic theological viewpoints related to Baptist history and...