by Wm. Loyd Allen | Apr 15, 2002 | Opinion
Late one cold night in October 1752, as widow Elizabeth Backus sat by her fire, wrapped in blankets reading the Bible, Massachusetts law officers came for her. They hauled the elderly, ailing Baptist off to jail for failing to pay taxes. The law she had refused to...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Mar 20, 2002 | Opinion
From the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls to the ratification of the 19th Amendment 72 years later, Christian religion and women’s suffrage kept close, if not always cordial, company. At the 1840 London Slavery Convention, internationally...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Feb 20, 2002 | Opinion
From the start, Baptist freedom, polity and heart religion proved a good religious fit for African Americans. Today, more than one out of three African-American Christians is a Baptist. Before emancipation, most African-American Baptists belonged to churches and...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Jan 23, 2002 | Opinion
No Christian tradition spends more energy categorizing and debating its “distinctives” than Baptists. Sorting out what makes a Baptist Baptist is a cottage industry among Baptist historians, myself included. No Christian tradition spends more energy...
