Baptist History and Heritage articles from June 2002

Baptist History and Heritage archives from June 2002

A current resource and long-range planning: inescapably, the Baptist History and Heritage Society lives in three time zones. It deals with the past. It provides resources for churches today. It surges into tomorrow on the basis of its long-range plans. (An Executive Note).
June 22, 2002... A three-time-zone life requires a careful balancing act. If we spend all of our time in yesteryear, we become irrelevant. If we spend all of our time thinking about the future, we waste our heritage. If we spend all of our time in the present,...

Baptists in Appalachia.
June 22, 2002... In late eighteenth-century America, Anglican "Parson" Woodmason wrote of the Baptists he observed in the "Carolina backcountry". They don't all agree in one Tune. For one sings this Doctrine, and the next something different--so that...

Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation 1945-1995.(Book Review)
June 22, 2002... By Mark Newman. University of Alabama Press, 2001. vii+292 pp. Perhaps the most glaring and ironic sin manifested by Southern Baptists from the inception of the denomination has been a steadfast devotion to both biblical authority and...

BH&HS adopts long-range plan. (News Notes).(Baptist History and Heritage Society)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The BH&HS voted on June 21, 2002, to adopt the seven recommendations in the five-year long-range plan presented by its Long-range Planning Committee: 1. To create an advisory committee of financial and public relations consultants to...

Other key actions taken by the BH&HS. (News Notes).(Baptist History and Heritage Society)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... On June 21, 2002, the BH&HS took several key actions that will significantly affect the organization's programs and future: 1. Adopted a record $230,000 budget for 2003 2. Approved increases in BH&HS memberships (effective October 1,...

BH&HS officers/board of directors and council of advisors members elected. (News Notes).(Baptist History and Heritage Society)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... BH&HS officers/directors reelected to serve in 2002-03 include: Dan Gentry Kent, Fort Worth, Texas, president; Glenn Jonas, Buies Creek, North Carolina, vice president; and Carol Crawford Holcomb, Temple, Texas, secretary. Charles W. Deweese,...

Awards presented. (News Notes).(Baptist History and Heritage Society)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The BH&HS presented the following awards on June 21, 2002: Distinguished Service Award fir Outstanding Contributions to Baptist History to Claude L. Howe Jr., Picayune, Mississippi; Davis C. Woolley Award for Outstanding Achievement in State...

Record annual meeting registration. (News Notes).(Baptist History and Heritage Society)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... Registration at the BH&HS's 2002 annual meeting totaled 130. That compared to about 60 in 1996 and 111 in 2001.

Future meeting sites approved. (News Notes).(Baptist History and Heritage Society)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The BH&HS voted to accept the invitation of Samford University to host the society's June 2005 meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, and to accept the invitation of the Baptist Joint Committee to host the society's June 2006 meeting in Washington,...

New collections related to Baptist missions in Italy opened in the Southern Baptist historical library and archives. (News Notes).(Brief Article)
June 22, 2002... The William Kemme Landels Papers consists of twenty-five letter books of correspondence written primarily while Landels was a career missionary from 1875-1926 in Italy first for the Baptist Missionary Society of Great Britain and, following...