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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 ...
This same year, a study on Southern Baptist churches concluded that the mean Simpson's Diversity Index for race in the Southern Baptists Church was 0.098, with 0 being perfect homogeneity and 1 being complete evenness. It was also concluded that the average Southern Baptist church had more than 90% non-Hispanic White members.
Darling acknowledged that a few evangelicals and Southern Baptists may be ready to "scrap the U.S. Constitution" while rejecting what has long been called a "classically liberal" approach to First ...
Convention of Visayas and Mindanao of Southern Baptist Churches – 0.2 million [72] Manipur Baptist Convention – 0.2 million [72] Evangelical Baptist Church of the Central African Republic – 0.2 million [72] Converge – 0.2 million [78] Seventh Day Baptists – 0.05 million [79]
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 ...
Then there is the long-term abuse that occurred in the Southern Baptist Convention, ... People flock to an evangelical church for a variety of reasons, including needing support as they go through ...
Electing one SBC president after another during the 1980s, a "conservative resurgence" helped change the face of evangelicalism.
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States. Brent Leatherwood has served as the ERLC president since September 13, 2022. [ 1 ]