Not “Since Paul before Nero,” is the descriptive phrase J. B. Gambrell (1841–1921) used for the famous address George W. Truett (1867–1944) delivered on “Baptists
I’ve heard from numerous pastor-friends that they’re thinking about leaving their church for this or that opportunity. Sometimes it’s ministry burnout and he wants to
Throughout their history, Baptists in America have been known as “people of the Book” committed to the simple preaching of the Bible. To some inside
The following essay is a revised edition from a lecture given at the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological
Coggins, James R., John Smyth’s Congregation: English Separatism, Mennonite Influence, and the Elect Nation (Waterloo, Ontario: Herald Press, 1991). Reading James R. Coggins
As I ponder the vision of The London Lyceum, I believe there are old lighthouses within the Baptist heritage, waiting to be relit, that can
[Editor’s Note: The original title of this essay has been modified since its original publication due to unnecessary offense and confusion that distracted from the
The history of the English General Baptists of the seventeenth century is often reduced to a story of devolution into heterodoxy owing to strict biblicism.
Over the past few years, there has been increasing discussion regarding the catholicity of the Reformation. However, this conversation is nothing new. William Perkins’s (1558–1602)
July 1858, like so many summer months before, forced the townspeople of Greenville, South Carolina to head indoors during the hottest hours of the day.