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The Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB) is an autonomous association of Baptist churches in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of the state conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Formed in 1836, it was one of the original nine state conventions to send delegates to the first Southern Baptist Convention ...
Rev. Joseph Albert Booker (1859–1926), was an American newspaper editor, academic administrator, educator, minister, activist, and Black community leader. He was born into slavery and orphaned at a young age; Booker went on to serve as the president of Arkansas Baptist College and editor of the Arkansas state’s Black Baptist newspaper, The Baptist Vanguard.
Baptist. George Washington Gayles (June 29, 1844 – March 5, 1924) was an American Baptist minister and state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1872 until 1875 and in the Mississippi Senate from 1878 until 1886. He was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1892, but ...
Shawn Parker, Executive Director-Treasurer of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board made clear the position of the Southern Baptist Convention.
James Robinson Graves (April 10, 1820 – June 26, 1893) was an American Baptist preacher, publisher, evangelist, debater, author, and editor. He is most noted as the original founder of what is now the Southwestern family of companies. Graves was born in Chester, Vermont, the son of Z. C. Graves, and died in Memphis, Tennessee.
A Jackson-area megachurch’s course reversal on a history of repeatedly mishandling sexual abuse cases offers a counternarrative within the Southern Baptist Convention to examples of denial and ...
Landmarkism, sometimes called Baptist bride theology, [1] [2] is a Baptist ecclesiology that emerged in the mid-19th century in the American South. It upholds the perpetuity theory of Baptist origins, which asserts an unbroken continuity and exclusive legitimacy of the Baptist movement since the apostolic period. Landmarkists hold a firm belief ...
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Mississippi. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in Mississippi was the Colored Citizen in 1867. More than 70 African American newspapers were founded across Mississippi between 1867 and 1899, in at least 37 different towns.