Baptist History and Heritage articles from March 2008

Baptist History and Heritage archives from March 2008

Roger Williams and Native Americans.(Editorial)
March 22, 2008... Several years ago I read Roger Williams's Christenings Make Not Christians or Brief Discourse Concerning that Name Heathen, Commonly Given to the Indians. (1) I was fascinated by Williams's attitude toward Native Americans, with whom he had...

"$400,000 for 400 years": Society Endowment Campaign.(Baptist History and Heritage Society )
March 22, 2008... On May 27, 2004, the Baptist History and Heritage Society adopted a recommendation of its Board of Directors to approve a Planning Committee whose purpose would be to prepare and recommend to the Society special events, projects, meetings,...

Celebrating Native American Heritage and Culture.
March 22, 2008... "How many Native American professional basketball players can you name?" The question came to me from a Native American pastor friend. Not being a basketball fan, I confessed I knew of none. "That's right," my friend said. "Do you know why?"...

The Burnt Swamp Baptist Association: a fellowship of Indian Baptist churches.(Organization overview)
March 22, 2008... The Burnt Swamp Baptist Association includes seventy Baptist churches comprised primarily of Native Americans from eastern North Carolina. All of the churches affiliate with the North Carolina Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist...

Duncan O'Bryant: pioneer Baptist Missionary to the Western Cherokees.(Biography)
March 22, 2008... The Cherokees probably arrived in what are now Arkansas and Oklahoma as permanent residents in the 1780s. By 1809, an estimated one thousand Cherokees lived west of the Mississippi, having emigrated from the Eastern Nation (located in parts...

John Davis and Joseph Islands: indigenous missionaries among the Creeks in Indian Territory.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... The Muscogee Indians, better known as the Creeks, (1) and recognized as one of the Five Civilized Tribes, (2) lived along the Chattahoochee River in Georgia and Alabama when white settlers began arriving. (3) Whites in Alabama and Georgia...

Lee and Susannah Compere.(Biography)
March 22, 2008... English missionaries Lee and Susannah Compere came to the area of what is now Alabama in 1822, then spent a decade caught up in the tensions between white, black, and Creek Indian cultures. (1) Lee was born to Anglican parents John and...

Baptist work among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest.
March 22, 2008... Baptists have attempted to Christianize Native Americans since Roger Williams. Leon McBeth related how a pre-Baptist Williams purposed to learn Indian languages, and by 1632, was conducting missionary work among the tribes of New England. (1)...

Missionary work among our Indians.(Reprint)
March 22, 2008... This article was published in the Arizona Baptist Beacon on January 11, 1945, and is used with permission of the Arizona Baptist Historical Commission. It introduces early twentieth-century mission work done by Southern Baptists among the...

International baptist perspectives on human rights.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... What importance have the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) and Baptist World Congresses assigned to human rights since the Alliance's first meeting in 1905? (1) And what have Baptists on a global scale said about human rights through the BWA...

"A man, a Christian.... and a gentleman?": John Day, Southern Baptists, and the nineteenth-century mission to Liberia.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... As told many times over, the story of Southern Baptists began with an ironic co-mingling of desires involving both missionaries and slaves. In 1845, the controversy surrounding the refusal of the Triennial Convention to appoint slaveholders...

The American Civil War of 1861-1865: a major challenge to the survival of early Baptists ventures in Nigeria.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... The foundation for Baptist work in Nigeria was laid in 1850 and owed its origin to the efforts made by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Organized in 1845 when the question of slavery became a dividing wall, the SBC's principal aim...

William Wallace Finlator: activist prophet.(Biography)
March 22, 2008... Any Baptist minister from North Carolina who has the nerve to write an editorial entitled "I'll Skip Billy Graham" deserves notice. William Wallace Finlator wrote such an article in 1973, criticizing Graham for being too narrowly focused...

Daniel and Abraham Marshall: Pioneer Baptist Evangelists to the South.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Daniel and Abraham Marshall: Pioneer Baptist Evangelists to the South. Edited by Thomas Ray. Springfield, MO: Particular Baptist Press, 2006. 330 pp. Judging from the title of this book, one might think that it is a biographical treatment...

The Life of Pat Neff: The Land, The Law and The Lord.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Life of Pat Neff: The Land, The Law and The Lord. By Dorothy Blodgett, Terrell Blodgett, and David L. Scott. Austin, TX: Home Place Publishers, 2007. 383 pp. My older brother, Harry, and his wife Nelda, both graduated from Baylor...

Baptists in America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Baptists in America. By Bill J. Leonard. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. 336 pp. This book is not a straightforward history of Baptists in America. It is part of The Columbia...

The Twelve Baptist Tribes in the USA: A Historical and Statistical Analysis.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The Twelve Baptist Tribes in the USA: A Historical and Statistical Analysis. By Albert W. Wardin, Jr. Atlanta, GA: Baptist History and Heritage Society, and Nashville, TN: Fields Publishing, Inc., 2007. 168 pp. Albert W. Wardin, Jr.,...

Baptists in Twentieth Century New Zealand.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Baptists in Twentieth Century New Zealand. Edited by Laurie Guy. Auckland: New Zealand Baptist Research and Historical Society, 2005. 284 pp. The subtitle of Baptists in Twentieth Century New Zealand clearly denotes the character of the...

When All God's Children Get Together: A Memoir of Race and Baptists.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... When All God's Children Get Together: A Memoir of Race and Baptists. By Emmanuel L. McCall. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2007. 145 pp. The title of this book suggests an image of race and Baptists universal. The impetus of the story,...

Light: The Photojournalism of Don Rutledge.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Light: The Photojournalism of Don Rutledge. Text by Robert O'Brien and Picture Editing and Design by Dan Beatty. Nashville, TN: Fields Publishing Inc., and Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society, 2006. 106 pp. "Beyond his...