Baptist History and Heritage articles from March 2006

Baptist History and Heritage archives from March 2006

Recent trends and Baptist missions: American Christians, including most Baptists, have typically been among the most productive, effective, and committed mission supporters and missionary senders, and they still are.(Editorial)
March 22, 2006... However, the missions landscape has begun to shift. In the March 2006 issue of Christianity Today, Rob Moll reported that South Korean churches now send one missionary for every 4.2 churches, and they are sending out 1,110 new missionaries...

Helping Baptists celebrate 400 years, 1609-2009: Baptists have occupied a place in world history for almost four centuries, growing from one tiny congregation in Amsterdam in 1609 to hundreds of thousands of churches today.(Baptist History and Heritage Society )
March 22, 2006... Eager to help Baptists celebrate their 400th anniversary, the Baptist History and Heritage Society elected a planning committee in 2004. That committee met in early 2005 and developed a creative set of plans to be implemented in 2006-2009. The...

Famous quotations by John Leland (1754-1841): John Leland is one of the most colorful, eccentric, and controversial preachers in American Baptist history. A hymn writer, historian, pamphleteer, and ardent advocate of freedom of conscience, he thought of himself primarily as a preacher of the gospel.
March 22, 2006... In his invaluable 1810 History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia, Robert B. Semple said, "Mr. Leland, as a preacher, was probably the most popular of any that ever resided in this state" (158). Leland's genius manifested...

The shifting landscape in Baptist missions during the twentieth century: dozens of excellent books and hundreds of articles have been written in the past ten years on the changes that occurred in Baptist foreign missions work during the twentieth century.
March 22, 2006... Most of these books and articles have been penned by distinguished historians and competent missionary executives. Although I have taught missiology and been involved in missions administration, I was a missionary for most of my adult life,...

Baptist missions in recent decades: patterns in Laity involvement, particularly among the younger generation.
March 22, 2006... Although numerous Baptist groups exist in the United States, and many of these groups have in-house missions agencies, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), as the largest non-Catholic Christian denomination in the United States, served as the...

The future of Baptists and missions: what is the missions future for Baptists? The question is more than a rhetorical one or the speculation of an academician.
March 22, 2006... The question is being asked with more and more frequency by Baptist young adults who are seeking an avenue for their missions calling, by lay people who are confused and perplexed by the politicization of missions, and by missionaries who feel...

One mission, different voices: overseas missions of the convention of Philippine Baptist churches.
March 22, 2006... This brief survey of the history of overseas missions undertaken by an association of local churches in the Philippines known as the Convention of Philippine Baptist churches (CPBC) covers the period from the inception of the CPBC's overseas...

Baptist missionary funding: from societies to centralization: baptists sprang from a well of separatism and independence. The absolute primacy of the local church was the heartbeat of the organism, energizing all other work.
March 22, 2006... This local autonomy served the churches well, allowing communities to develop congregations that met the needs of a wide variety of ethnic, economic, and educational situations. Autonomy, however, proved to be a handicap when it came to...

"An opportunity to aid in this good work": power and participation in the Ann Hasseltine Missionary Society: in the early years of the Judson Female Institute, "Candy Saturday" brought much delight to the students. (1) This Saturday occurred once a month and was the only time that the women were allowed to buy candy.
March 22, 2006... All students received 50 cents a month from their student accounts to be used as "candy money." As can be imagined, this "candy money" was valuable beyond its worth because of the rare treat that it brought into the hands of early Judson women....

"Here I am, stuck in the middle with you": the Baptist standard, Texas Baptist Leadership, and school desegregation, 1954 to 1956: in 1954, the Supreme Court of the United States declared in a unified voice that racial segregation in the nation's public school system was unconstitutional. Not everyone agreed, including some South Carolina lawmakers.
March 22, 2006... Like many Southerners, these legislators felt rebuffed by such a ruling, one that reached to and destroyed, in their minds, the central character of Southern culture. When their governor, George Timmerman, arranged for a renowned religious...

From Colporteurs to cooperative program: a century of Southern Baptist stewardship and the rise of the Southern Baptist Convention.
March 22, 2006... "Throughout the twentieth-century," claimed historian Bill J. Leonard, "Southern Baptists... devoted more attention to Christian stewardship than perhaps to any other issue except evangelism and missions. Even those powerful themes have...

Judson and Rice talk to Baptists.(Adoniram Judson, Luther Rice)
March 22, 2006... I have two of those little yellow post-it notes that I want to stick to your souls this evening. They come in the handwritings of Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) and Luther Rice (1783-1836). Here is the first. It is in Judson's handwriting. It...

Southern Baptist Sisters: In Search of Status, 1845-2000.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Southern Baptist Sisters: In Search of Status, 1845-2000. By David T. Morgan. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003. 200 pp. David T. Morgan's purpose for writing Southern Baptist Sisters was to document the role of women in "promoting the...

Women Deacons and Deaconesses: 400 Years of Baptist Service.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Women Deacons and Deaconesses: 400 Years of Baptist Service. By Charles W. Deweese. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, and Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2005. 259 pp. In Women Deacons and Deaconesses, Charles W....

Roger Williams.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Roger Williams. By Edwin S. Gaustad. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 150 pp. Over one hundred years before the American Constitution, the First Amendment, Thomas Jefferson or James Madison, and long before Jefferson...

Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservatives and American Culture. By Barry Hankins. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2002. 344 pp. The past two decades have witnessed a number of monographs seeking to provide a dominant...

Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Russian Baptists and Spiritual Revolution, 1905-1929. By Heather J. Coleman. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. 304pp. Heather J. Coleman has written a well-crafted volume on a tumultuous but yet dynamic period...

North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914: Theology, Theory, and Policy. Edited by Wilbert R. Shenk. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2004. 349 pp. This symposium is an important product of the North Atlantic Missiological...

Courage and Hope: The Stories of Ten Baptist Women Ministers.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Courage and Hope: The Stories of Ten Baptist Women Ministers. Edited by Pamela R. Durso and Keith E. Durso. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, and Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2005. 171 pp. It took a long time for...