Baptist History and Heritage articles from June 2006

Baptist History and Heritage archives from June 2006

Baptist influence in the public arena: Baptists began as a small, oppressed movement in the American colonies, and Baptists became well-known and well-despised as defenders of freedom and champions of religious liberty. In their early years, they had no political power, and few Baptists ventured into the public arena.(Editorial)
June 22, 2006... As the nation grew and matured, Baptists also grew and matured, eventually becoming a majority movement, particularly in the southern region of the country. As their numbers increased, Baptists slowly gained more clout and prestige, and Baptist...

Baptist prophets and The Meaning of the Baptist Experience: the Baptist History and Heritage Society views its publication program to be one of its distinctive contributions to the Baptist public.(Editorial)
June 22, 2006... The BH&HS offers books, booklets, pamphlets, a how-to manual for history programs in churches, and a newsletter and a journal for its embers. For a complete list of available resources, see the Resource Catalog on our website:...

Seven Things They Don't Teach You in Seminary: I recommend to you a book that has no intention of being a book on Christian history or Baptist history. It is nonetheless filled with history.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... It is John Killinger's latest: Seven Things They Don't Teach You in Seminary (Crossroad, 2006). It is not intended to be a book of humor either, but if you have ever been a pastor, married to a pastor, or lived in a pastor's home, I guarantee...

BJC = [JMD.sup.2]: the contributions of Joseph M. Dawson and James M. Dunn to the Baptist Joint Committee: like the old Campbell's Soup television jingle about "soup and sandwich," Joseph M. Dawson and James M. Dunn "go together.".(Viewpoint essay)
June 22, 2006... Both of their portraits hang on the same wall in the Baptist Joint Committee (BJC) conference room in Washington, D.C., as if to continue their watching over the work of the agency that they both headed. Dawson was the first executive director...

The rise, decline, and fall of Christian Life commission entities and voices.
June 22, 2006... Edward Gibbon, in his autobiography, related the revelatory experience that led him to develop his multi-volume Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon's testimony of his epiphany was this: It was at Rome, on the 15th of October...

Christianity and the social crisis: Rauschenbusch's legacy after a century: in 2001, the plight of the working poor reached a wide audience through Barbara Ehrenreich's best seller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. Ehrenreich wondered how anyone could survive on near minimum wage.(Biography)
June 22, 2006... She worked as a waitress, house cleaner, and Wal-Mart salesperson to see whether she could live on the wages they offered. She found that the work was exhausting and that these jobs did not provide sufficient income to meet expenses. Ehrenreich...

Billy Graham: an appreciation: wherever one travels around the world, the names of three Baptists are immediately known and appreciated--Jimmy Carter, Billy Graham and Martin Luther King, Jr. One is a politician, one an evangelist, and the other was a civil rights leader. All of them have given Baptists and the Christian faith a good reputation.(Biography)
June 22, 2006... This article focuses on the worldwide evangelist, Billy Graham. My intention in this article is to offer a personal appreciation of Graham from the vantage point of my acquaintance with him for forty years. Many articles and books have been...

The life and times of Barbara Jordan: a twentieth-century Baptist and political pioneer: the world was a different place for women in 1962 when Barbara Charline Jordan lost her first race for the Texas House of Representatives.(Biography)
June 22, 2006... Some people said that she probably lost the race because people were not accustomed to voting for a woman. Jordan said, "Well, now, that is totally ridiculous, and I'll just have to try to alter that." (1) Because of the path cleared by Jordan,...

Jennings Randolph: servant, statesman, Seventh Day Baptist: many advantages come along with being part of the Baptist family, especially as those advantages are expressed through the relationships we have with our Baptist brothers and sisters. Inside the Baptist family, we have our own clans, and kinship inside those clans is meaningful.(Biography)
June 22, 2006... Seventh Day Baptists are a particularly clannish people, demonstrating long historical lines tied closely to family names that extend back to the days of our inception. That clannishness comes with its share of advantages and disadvantages. I...

Principles over popularity: the political career of Congressman Brooks Hays: Brooks Hays was a Baptist. He was not just any Baptist, but a Southern Baptist and thus a member of the largest, most prosperous, and evangelically aggressive wing of that denominational tradition.(Biography)
June 22, 2006... From his earliest childhood in the tiny Arkansas community of London to Russellville, Little Rock, and Washington, D. C., Hays consistently remained true to his faith. Critics sometimes found fault with his politics, his attitude toward race...

Harry Emerson Fosdick's role in the war and pacifist movements.
June 22, 2006... "I renounce war and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another!" With those words on November 12, 1933, Harry Emerson Fosdick concluded his sermon and descended from the Riverside Church pulpit. (1) His...

Unclean: Luke 13:20-21: winning sermon in the 2006 Baptist Heritage Preaching Contest: one of the hardest things to take about Jesus is that he kept getting things wrong. His disciples and other followers tried to help him. They really did.(Viewpoint essay)
June 22, 2006... But how can you help a guy who keeps having lunch with tax collectors? What can you do for a man who is constantly touching lepers and blind people and children? What possible hope can you offer a rabbi and teacher who insists on talking to and...

Isaac Taylor Tichenor: The Creation of the Baptist New South.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Isaac Taylor Tichenor: The Creation of the Baptist New South. Michael E. Williams Sr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. 240 pp. The title of this book points to the importance of I. T. Tichenor for understanding the...

Second to None: A History of Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, 150 Years of Service, 1854-2004.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... Second to None: A History of Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, 150 Years of Service, 1854-2004. By C. Douglas Weaver. Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society and Nashville, TN: Fields Publishing, Inc., 2004, 280 pp. Douglas...