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The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination established in 1907 as the Northern Baptist Convention, and named the American Baptist Convention from 1950 to 1972. Tracing its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial Convention ...
May C. Jones (born November 5, 1842 – ?) was a trailblazing Baptist minister and the first woman to be ordained in the Northern Baptist Convention. Her ordination in 1882 marked a significant milestone in the history of women in ministry, paving the way for future generations.
American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA), formed (as the Northern Baptist Convention) in 1907; American Baptist Association, formed 1924; American Baptist College, Nashville, Tennessee, formed 1924 by the National Baptist Convention, USA; American Baptist International Ministries, a missionary society; Any Baptist who is an American: Baptists in ...
The National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., which often is known as the NBCUSA, is one of four major Black Baptist denominations in the U.S. and is the oldest and largest of the four.
Jasper Cortenus Massee (November 1871 – March 27, 1965 [1]) was a leading fundamentalist Baptist in the early 20th century. As a leader of the more moderate fundamentalist Baptists in the Northern Baptist Convention (NBC), his efforts towards reconciliation contributed to compromises that ensured its continued existence as a cohesive Christian denomination.
In 1921, Montgomery was the first woman to be elected president of the Northern Baptist Convention (NBC), and of any religious denomination in the United States. [4] As president of the Women's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, she had given their gift of more than US$450,000 to the NBC. She was elected after having demonstrated her ...
It was apparently from the title of the pamphlets that the term "fundamentalist" was coined, with the first reference to the term being an article by Northern Baptist editor Curtis Lee Laws. In 1915, the conservative magazine The Presbyterian published a conservative manifesto that had been in circulation within the denomination entitled "Back ...
The roots of FBFI can be traced to the Fundamental Fellowship of Northern Baptists. The Fundamental Fellowship was organized in 1920 as the National Federation of Fundamentalists of the Northern Baptists, during the Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy in the Northern Baptist Convention (NBC).