by Doug Weaver | Feb 27, 2002 | Opinion
Southern Baptists split from Northern Baptists in 1845 when they realized that slaveholders were not going to be allowed to be missionaries. For most of Southern Baptist history, one part of the denomination’s identity was crystal clear: to be Baptist was to be...
by Doug Weaver | Jan 16, 2002 | Opinion
Like other religious groups in antebellum America, Baptists split over the issue of slavery. Baptists in the South created a separate organization when the Triennial Convention, the national foreign missionary society, decided to exclude slaveholders as missionaries....
by Doug Weaver | Nov 5, 2001 | Opinion
At the 1978 Southern Baptist Convention, those present heard a stirring report about world hunger. The speaker asked all in attendance to skip lunch and fast for the cause. Convention president Jimmy Allen then said with a smile from the podium that although many...
by Doug Weaver | Nov 5, 2001 | Opinion
At the 1978 Southern Baptist Convention, those present heard a stirring report about world hunger. The speaker asked all in attendance to skip lunch and fast for the cause. Convention president Jimmy Allen then said with a smile from the podium that although many...
