by John Finley | Mar 6, 2002 | Opinion
Contemporary observers of American culture may think that Baptists have always had it in for Jews. Isolated events of the past 15 years make it easy to see why. Southern Baptist Convention President Bailey Smith’s 1980 assertion that “God Almighty does not...
by John Finley | Feb 6, 2002 | Opinion
Like many congregations in the antebellum American South, First Baptist Church, Savannah, Ga., was composed of white, slave and free black members. At the end of the Civil War, however, most African-American members withdrew to form their own churches. Segregated...
by John Finley | Dec 11, 2001 | Opinion
Nineteenth century Southern Baptists debated many issues–missions, the church, slavery, even Baptist history–yet simple biblical faith helped them avoid heated confrontations over the Bible which would come in the 20th century. When the agenda changed,...
