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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 ...
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 ...
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Kansas City, Missouri) New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (New Orleans, Louisiana) Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Wake Forest, North Carolina) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, Kentucky) Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Fort Worth, Texas)
Southern Baptist Convention delegates, known as messengers, gather on Tuesday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans for the denomination's 2023 annual meeting.
Thousands of small Southern Baptist churches dotted the landscape throughout the United States in the mid-19th century. Recognizing that many churches working together in missions could accomplish more than any one, the Board of Foreign Missions was established on May 10, 1845 (the same date the Southern Baptist Convention was formed) and ...
The Southern Baptist Convention faces yet another crisis of identity at its upcoming annual meeting. Anticipation ahead of the 2022 and 2023 SBC annual meetings was one of existential angst ...
Why Baptists?: A Study of Baptist Faith and Heritage; BaptistWay Press 1997; Renaissance and Reformation (ISBN 0-8028-0050-5), 1986; Revolution Within the Revolution: The First Amendment in Historical Context, 1612-1789 (ISBN 0-8028-0458-6), 1990; Whole Gospel Whole World: The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention 1845–1995 ...
The Rev. Mike Keahbone of Lawton is expected to be nominated for the Southern Baptist Convention president post when the faith group meets in June.