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  2. Southern Baptist Convention - Wikipedia

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    The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...

  3. Southern Baptists of Texas Convention - Wikipedia

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    The earliest precursor to the SBTC was the Conservative Baptist Fellowship of Texas. Members of that fellowship joined other conservative Southern Baptists to form the Southern Baptists of Texas in 1995. This group operated within the Baptist General Convention of Texas until a new entity the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention was founded in ...

  4. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary - Wikipedia

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    In that meeting, Southern Baptists agreed to pledge $100,000 in the establishment of a theological school. In 1857, Boyce convinced members of the convention in Louisville, Kentucky, to approve a motion to establish The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In the fall of 1859, Southern began its first academic year with 26 students.

  5. Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the 20th century, controversy had flared up sporadically among Southern Baptists over the nature of biblical authority and how to interpret the Bible. Until 1925 the SBC did not have a specific, formal confession of faith; whenever an issue arose it had looked to two earlier and more general baptistic confessions of faith produced in the United States: the Philadelphia Confession of ...

  6. How the Southern Baptist Convention turned 180 degrees on ...

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    By a margin of 44 votes, Kathy Litton broke a 53-year stretch of men holding a key Southern Baptist Convention position. “To me it said we’re welcoming women to be leaders in the denomination ...

  7. History of religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Baptist group in the world and the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. In 1995, it renounced its 1845 origins in the defense of slavery and racial superiority.

  8. What MS Baptist leaders said about the Southern Baptist ... - AOL

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    In 2023, Southern Baptist Convention leadership disfellowshipped Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson. Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Linda Smith, at the time, said her church didn't expect to appeal.

  9. Southern Baptists oust Saddleback Church over woman pastor - AOL

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    The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted its second-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, ... But the controversy began in 2021, when Warren ordained three women as pastors ...