Baptist History and Heritage articles from June 2004

Baptist History and Heritage archives from June 2004

Baptists in the Northwest.(Editorial)
June 22, 2004... Baptists trace their beginnings in the United States back to 1638, and they gladly claim a history that has spanned 366 years. Baptist churches in the Northeast and the South often celebrate anniversaries that remind us all just how long this...

Christian martyrs and religious liberty.
June 22, 2004... "Sixty thousand Christians are killed every year for their faith," claimed Denton Lotz, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, during the July 2004 meeting of the BWA General Council in Seoul, South Korea, as reported by Associated...

Invading a Christian's privacy.
June 22, 2004... Throughout my teaching career, I have had a strange thing happen in the spring of every year, near graduation. Senior students--not first-year or second-year or junior students, but senior students-come to my office with quizzical looks on...

Baptist beginnings in the Pacific Northwest.
June 22, 2004... Baptists were mired in numerous controversial issues during the 1840s. Baptist pioneers who settled in the Pacific Northwest during this time carried these contentions with them, flavoring a land of promise with viewpoints still recognizable...

An overview of Northwest Baptist history.
June 22, 2004... I make no claims to being a historian. I am probably nearer to "being history" than being a historian, but I have been an active observer of Baptist life in the Northwest for fifty years and know something of the history of Baptists in this...

Recovering a missing trail in Canadian Baptist footprints in the Northwest: stories of Chinese Baptists in Western Canada.
June 22, 2004... The religious history of Canada is intertwined with the socio-cultural history of the nation. From a historical perspective, Canadian society and Canadian Christianity were inherently bicultural in nature--French and British; Catholic and...

A new paradigm in Japanese ministry: God at work through Southern Baptists in the Pacific Northwest.
June 22, 2004... Japan is a country roughly the size of California. Yet, it has a population that equals half of all the people living in the United States. It is a technologically and economically advanced country, able to wield much power in the world...

Shared church facilities: a study of three Anglo-ethnic arrangements (1).
June 22, 2004... Imagine being the pastor of First Baptist Church, Beaverton, Oregon. You have agreed to house a Spanish-language Bible study group that meets on a weeknight. You think you have communicated to the Spanish-language church planter that you...

Theological influences affecting Baptist development in the Northwest.
June 22, 2004... "Baptist peculiarities must be vindicated in Oregon. Our Pedo-baptist and Campbellite neighbors are mooting the subject of baptism, and especially communion. May we have grace to present these subjects as gospel truths in the love of the gospel...

Resources for the study of Baptists in the Northwest in the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives.
June 22, 2004... Examining the general historiography of Baptists in the Northwest is beneficial before venturing into specific sources located at the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives (SBHLA). This examination will be selective and not nearly...

Baptist historiography in the new century: what themes should we be addressing?
June 22, 2004... Baptist history is a field full of opportunities for new investigations. (1) To be sure, over the years, a number of areas have attracted our attention. The most obvious is institutional history, that is, denominational, associational, and...

Faith on the run: why I'm still a Baptist.
June 22, 2004... Mark 10:46-52 and Selections from Hebrews 11 Winning Sermon in the 2004 Baptist Heritage Preaching Contest Today is Reformation Sunday--not generally a high liturgical moment for most Baptist congregations. (1) The ones who do...

Israel S. Campbell: "the Father of Black Texas Baptists".
June 22, 2004... Galveston was one of the most important cities in the development of early Baptist life in Texas. Because traveling across the Indian-inhabited regions that would eventually become the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma was dangerous, the safest...

Down by the Riverside: a Brief History of Baptist Faith.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Down by the Riverside: A Brief History of Baptist Faith. By Everett C. Goodwin. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 2002. 144 pp. "[W]ritten for beginners" who have "little previous knowledge about Baptists" (p. viii), Down by the Riverside has...

Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings. Edited by Keith Harper. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2002. 458 pp. When telling the story of Southern Baptist international missions, the life of Lottie Moon is central to the...

Richard Furman: Life and Legacy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Richard Furman: Life and Legacy. Reprint edition. By James A. Rogers. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2001. 335 pp. Few Baptists had as great an influence upon the formation of Baptist institutional life, especially upon laying the...

Gottfried F. Alf: Pioneer of the Baptist Movement in Poland.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Gottfried F. Alf: Pioneer of the Baptist Movement in Poland. By Albert W. Wardin, Jr. Nashville: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2003. 112 pp. North American Baptists are familiar with the lives and stories of such leading Baptists...

At Ease in Zion: a Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... At Ease in Zion: A Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900. By Rufus B. Spain. Foreword by Samuel S. Hill. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003, 1967. xxii, 247 pp. Nearly four decades since its original publication, the...

A Man of Books and a Man of the People: E. Y. Mullins and the Crisis of Moderate Southern Baptist Leadership.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... A Man of Books and a Man of the People: E. Y. Mullins and the Crisis of Moderate Southern Baptist Leadership. By William E. Ellis. Mercer University Press, 2003. 228 pp. This very good biography of E. Y. Mullins was first published by...

To a People Yet Unborn: a Fifty-Year History of the California Baptist Foundation.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... To a People Yet Unborn: A Fifty-Year History of the California Baptist Foundation. By Deborah Osen Hancock. Fresno, CA: California Baptist Foundation, 2002. 99 pp. The Southern Baptist Convention consists of churches as well as other...