Baptist History and Heritage articles from June 2005

Baptist History and Heritage archives from June 2005

Baptist women in America: in various times in Baptist history in America, women have served as church planters, missionaries, mission organization leaders, deaconesses, deacons, worship leaders, preachers, exhorters, and spiritual advisors.(Editorial)
June 22, 2005... These women have contributed much to their local churches and communities. Yet until recent years, the work of Baptist women was rely recorded. Baptist historians did not preserve women's experiences or record their thoughts or reflections....

Introducing Baptists: a new booklet: the Baptist history and heritage society recently released a new booklet titled an introduction to Baptists (24 pages). This is booklet number seven in the Baptist heritage library.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005... The booklet provides insight into the Baptist vision of Christianity by presenting snapshot views of six major aspects of the Baptist experience: origins, history, priorities, identity, conflicts, and contributions. Intended readers include...

What were Baptists in America like 200 years ago? One of the best places to go to answer the question is to David Benedict's (1779-1874) fifty years among the Baptists.
June 22, 2005... Published in 1860, Benedict's book described by decades the history of Baptists in America from 1800 to 1850. One only wishes that we had such a book by a Baptist historian for every fifty-year period for Baptists in America. According to...

Baptist women walking together in America, 1950-2000: when did you become captivated by the study of history? I was born in a twin-city area of North Louisiana, behind the First Baptist Church of one of the twin communities and around the corner from a school where I studied American history under a rare phenomenon, a seventh-grade teacher with a Ph.D. in history.
June 22, 2005... Miss Perkins believed that a study of the present and immediate past had to acknowledge that history began in the mammoth civilizations covering millennia followed by clusters of centuries such as the Middle Ages or the Renaissance Period or...

Chosen by God: women pastors on the frontiers of the seventh day baptist denomination: we sat in the warm July sunshine, taking a break from the afternoon camp activities. Suddenly Courtney swung her body around and looked across the picnic table at me. She had just heard another adult address me.
June 22, 2005... Why are you called Pastor Pat?" She fired the question at me as only a ten-year-old can. "Because I am a pastor--a minister--and I lead a church," I responded with a laugh. "You do!?" she exclaimed. With widened eyes and a voice raised in...

Keep your hand on the plow--hold on: black Baptist women in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: as I look about me today in this veiled world of mine, despite the noisier and more spectacular advance of my brothers, I instinctively feel and know that it is the five million women of my race who really count.(Ebenezer Baptist Church history)
June 22, 2005... Black women (and women whose grandmothers were black) are... the main pillars of those social settlements which we call churches and they have with small doubt raised three-fourths of our church property. (1) W.E.B. DuBois used these words...

Black Baptist women and the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1963: historians and journalists during and immediately after the Civil Rights Movement emphasized the role of religion in the movement. They showed how the black church and its leaders provided the charisma, finance, inspiration, spiritual nurture, and the foot soldiers that made the movement successful.
June 22, 2005... Most of the attention was lavished on ordained clergy and prominent male leadership figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt T. Walker, James Farmer, and Fred Shuttlesworth. In recent years, more attention has been given...

African American Baptist women: a study of missions in African American churches in Atlanta, Georgia: the missionary service of African American women has long mirrored their role in the family. Over the years, they have played a major role in keeping the family unit together in spite of great challenges, including slavery and subsequent prejudices.
June 22, 2005... African American women have been the mainstay of their churches, especially Baptist churches. The purpose of this paper is to provide historical insights into the roles of Baptist women in missions in the growth of the African American churches...

Remember that you were slaves Deuteronomy 5:15, 15:15, 16:12, 24:18, 22: winning sermon in the 2005 Baptist heritage preaching contest: when we celebrate the Fourth of July, we are reminding ourselves as Americans that we have not always been free.
June 22, 2005... That's why we have an Independence Day--to keep us from taking Freedom for granted, to make us teach our children that once we were not independent, once we were under tyranny. There was a time when we did not have the liberty to gather in...

Baptist women deacons and deaconesses: key developments and trends, 1609-2005: "Baptist women deacons and deaconesses: key developments and trends, 1609-2005" is a big topic. It covers four centuries. It spans international boundaries. It exhibits considerable conflict.
June 22, 2005... It relates to the Bible, theology, church history, and ethics. Therefore, I have chosen a special way to present this paper: I will ask and answer key questions that I believe will help get to the heart of the story. First, does this topic...

Susan B. Anthony and Helen Barrett Montgomery: an intergenerational feminist partnership: the name of Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) is synonymous with the struggle for women's suffrage in America.
June 22, 2005... She worked tirelessly for numerous reform causes, but above all, she earned a place in American history as one of the foremost advocates of women's rights in her generation. Helen Barrett Montgomery (1861-1934) was equally committed to social...

Sallie Rochester Ford: fiction, faith, and femininity: nineteenth-century Baptists offered two general, and different, cultural messages to women within the church regarding social expectations.
June 22, 2005... The first, and most predictable, message addressed gender roles and signaled the preeminence of piety over power, submission over supremacy, and maternalism over masculinity. The "true" Baptist woman, in this way, resembled the cultural ideal...

"Exquisite powers": Ann Baker Graves and Corinthia Read Williams, obedient revolutionaries.(Biography)
June 22, 2005... We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.--Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time, "A Time of Juveniles," 1967. If perticuliar care and attention...

Baptist Church Discipline.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Baptist Church Discipline. By James Leo Garrett, Jr. Paris, Arkansas: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 2004. 60 pp. First published by Broadman Press in 1962, James Leo Garrett's revision of Baptist Church Discipline is as timely in 2005 as it...

Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Baptist Faith in Action: The Private Writings of Maria Baker Taylor, 1813-1895. By Kathryn Carlisle Schwartz. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 384 pp. Some folks say they hate history. Often, however, even those with...

According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... According to God's Plan: Southern Baptist Missions and Race, 1945-1970. By Alan Scot Willis. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 260 pp. Alan Scot Willis presents an honest, balanced, and forthright account of how...

The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Formation of the Primitive Baptist Movement. By Jeffrey Wayne Taylor. Kitchner, Ontario: Pandora Press, 2004. 225 pp. Historical research on the Primitive Baptists has, until recently, been generally limited to those inside the...

The Trophy of Baptists: Words to Celebrate Religious Liberty.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Trophy of Baptists: Words to Celebrate Religious Liberty. Edited by J. Brent Walker. Macon, GA: Smyth and Helwys, 2003. 120 pp. Edited by the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC), this anthology...

Perspectives on Church Government.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Perspectives on Church Government. Edited by Chad Owen Brown and R. Stanton Norman. Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2004. 353p. Perspectives on Church Government examines five different models of church governance, each of which is...