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The lone, striking countertrend is a steep rise in nondenominational Protestants, who attend churches outside the “mainline” denominations — the once-ubiquitous Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans. The story is set up this way: religion is on the decline and the only phenomena standing out ar...
This was particularly true in the Methodist and Baptist traditions, though by the midnineteenth century most of these opportunities would be curtailed as these denominations attempted to move away from radical revivalism and toward the status of respectable denominations. Some preachers also promoted ...
2. Many people could not afford to rent a house or were expelled from their homes. 3. The U.S. had a long history of isolationism. People realized its importance even before the founding of the U.S., because such a policy served its interests best. 4. It boosted the morale...
As I continue to reflect on last week’s Gospel lectionary passage in Mark 6 of John the Baptist in jail and then beheaded because he spoke clearly and openly his truths and his convictions, I wonder when will the Democratic senators begin speaking their truth in love. Then sitting in this...
andthecontinent--Quakers,Mennonites,Amish,Moravians,andBaptists. WhenPennarrivedthefollowingyear,therewerealreadyDutch,Swedish,and EnglishsettlerslivingalongtheDelawareRiver.Itwastherehefounded Philadelphia,theCityofBrotherlyLove. Inkeepingwithhisfaith,Pennwasmotivatedbyasenseofequalitynotoftenfound inotherAmerica...
There was also a group of young believers at Wayland Baptist who were on fire for the Lord. Out of this group would come many of the early and current leaders of the Local Church Movement. Benson Phillips was the leader and driving force of the group called the Mission Band (not musical...
needed to adapt itself to the world. According to the Baptist pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, the “coming of Christ” might occur “slowly . . . but surely, [as] His will and principles [are] worked out by God’s grace in human life and institutions.”34The social gospel, which encourag...
Mary’s Baptist Church in Wichita, was a retired mail carrier and had an Orthodox cathedral on his route. He looked at me and said, “If you don’t think you’re in the best church in the world, then, my friend, you are in the wrong church!” Now, to how I became Orthodox. I...
The practice of "Circuit preaching" followed the example of the Methodists and Baptists in the Midwest. In fact, the committee attempted to establish a system of circuit preachers that would be available to any rural congregation that asked.137 Sabbath Schools, discussed previously in this paper...