INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Southern Baptists narrowly rejected a proposal Wednesday to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in their constitution after opponents argued it was unnecessary because the denomination already has a way of ousting such churches. The measure received support from 61% ...
My ongoing project of photographing old churches is inspired by an interest in ecclesiastical architecture and architecture in general. I am often drawn to the quaint and forgotten small churches found on remote byways but church architecture of all types is interesting to me. I am a fan of mod...
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship formed in 1991 as a way for churches to fund Southern Baptist agencies and send missionaries without contributing money through the conservative-controlled denomination budget. By 2008, Carter had a new concept. He organized the New Baptist Covenant in...
Although the statement of faith regarding pastors was not binding on congregations, some Baptists warned that some churches would quit the denomination. Some congregations did quit two years ago when the Southern Baptists declared that wives should “submit graciously” to their husbands. End of ...
A study of six Atlanta-area Baptist churches and their response to changes in the racial status quo [electronic resource] / Scholars often oversimplify Southern Baptist reactions to the civil rights movement. This study recovers the nuances of Southern Baptist responses by interweaving church records...
Delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting have narrowly rejected a proposal to enshrine a ban on churches with women pastors in the denomination’s constitution.
In 1945, he began filling his yard in Trion, Georgia, with miniature buildings: a replica of the Baptist church, a playhouse, and a full-size dry goods store. Obsessed with the divinity of human creativity, he began collecting pieces for a makeshift exhibit on the Inventions of Mankind, ev...