Southern Baptists Face a Familiar Trend: Emptier PewsThe Southern Baptist Convention announced its membership statsthis week, and it wasn't a cause...Schouten, Lucy
The president of the nation's largest Southern Baptist seminary, ousted on Wednesday, is the latest official removed by the conservative forces who control the Southern Baptist Convention.Trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth voted 26-7 to dismiss the Rev. Russell H. ...
after its virtual disappearance by the late 19th century when Baptist and other Protestant missions began working there. The consolidation of colonialism and the new challenges facing African society gave mission activity renewed vitality, and throughout the region Black education and health remained larg...