Baptist History and Heritage articles from June 2000

Baptist History and Heritage archives from June 2000

Editorial.
June 22, 2000... The 2000 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Historical Society was held in Savannah this year, hosted by First Baptist Church. This edition of the journal contains presentations from the annual meeting, which had one of the best attendance...

New Fellowship of Baptist Historians: an executive note.
June 22, 2000... May 26, 2000, was a pivotal day for Baptist historians. Meeting for breakfast at First Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia, during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Historical Society, about twenty historians formed the Fellowship of...

Baptist identity in the twentieth century.
June 22, 2000... How will we know who we are, if we do not understand where we have been? Especially for a people searching for a clear identity in the midst of turmoil, it is crucial to provide a chronicle of cherished traditions. In an effort to illuminate...

Reflections on Baptist theological education in the twentieth century.
June 22, 2000... I am grateful for the invitation to share reflections on Baptist theological education in the twentieth century because Baptist theological education is the life to which I was born and the calling to which I am committed. Others who are older...

Reflections: Baptists and women's issues in the twentieth century.
June 22, 2000... Breathing helium produces a higher voice. Sore throats usually make one hoarse. Laryngitis leaves a person silent much to the delight of so-called friends. Anger usually results in a loud and perhaps frighteningly powerful voice. A shaky voice...

Birmingham's Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth: unsung hero of the civil rights movement.
June 22, 2000... In 1992, Benno Schmidt, the former president of Yale University, made a speech to the National Press Club. In the question and answer period that followed, he made an offhand reference to Eugene "Bull" Connor, Birmingham's infamous Commissioner...

Black Baptists, African missions, and racial identity, 1800-1915: a case study of African American religion.
June 22, 2000... The principal argument of this article is that African-American Baptists, representative of the wider community of black Christians during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in their embracing Christianity and pursuing of African...

Pilgrims through the years: the bicentennial of First Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia: an overview.
June 22, 2000... Christian in commitment, Baptist by choice, Southern Baptist through historical circumstances, First Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, will celebrate two hundred years of pilgrimage history on the twenty-sixth day of November, two thousand....

Every Town Needs a Downtown Church; a History of First Baptist Church, Gainesville, Florida.(Book Review)
June 22, 2000... Nashville: Southern Baptist Historical Society and Fields Publishing, Inc., 2000. 240 pp. In frontier Gainesville, Florida, downtown was pretty much all of town in 1870 when a small band of believers established First Baptist Church. In...

This Train is Bound for Glory: the Story of America's Chapel Cars.(Book Review)
June 22, 2000... By Wilma Rugh Taylor and Norman Thomas Taylor. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1999. 382 pp. Authors Wilma and Norman Taylor put together a labor of love with This Train Is Bound For Glory, a work that tells the story of railroad chapel cars....

Historian William R. Estep Jr. Dies.(Obituary)
June 22, 2000... One of the most prominent church historians in Southern Baptist life, whose work threw a spotlight on Baptist origins and church-state issues, has died. William R. Estep Jr., 80, distinguished professor of church history emeritus at...

Appointment of an SBHS Name Change Study Committee. (News Notes).
June 22, 2000... The SBHS voted to approve the appointment of a Name Change Study Committee by the organization's president, Mel Hawkins. He later appointed the following to serve as committee members: Carol Crawford Holcomb, Texas (chair); Glenn Jonas, North...

Election of Officers and Council of Advisors members. (News Notes).
June 22, 2000... Officers elected to serve in 2000-01 included: Mel Hawkins, president; Dan Gentry Kent, vice president; and Jerry Summers, secretary. Charles Deweese continues his service as executive director-treasurer. Council of Advisors members elected...

Future meetings reaffirmed. (News Notes).
June 22, 2000... The SBHS voted to reaffirm holding its March 22-24, 2001, annual meeting at First Baptist Church, Pensacola, Florida, and its June 20-22, 2002, meeting at Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee.

Creation of an SBHS life membership fee. (News Notes).
June 22, 2000... SBHS officers voted to establish a life membership fee only for individuals at $750.00. Such memberships may be paid over a three-year period. All life membership fees will be placed in the SBHS's Endowment Fund.

New Baptist journal. (News Notes).
June 22, 2000... The Journal of European Baptist Studies is brand new. Volume 1, Number 1, is dated September 2000. The journal is published by and available from the International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS)--which relates to the European Baptist...