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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.
This list of Baptist denominations is a list of subdivisions of Baptists, with their various Baptist associations, conferences, conventions, fellowships, groups, and unions around the world. Unless otherwise noted, information comes from the World Baptist Alliance .
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 ...
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches – 0.3 million [72] Ghana Baptist Convention – 0.3 million [72] Union of Baptist Churches in Rwanda – 0.3 million [72] Venture Church Network – 0.2 million [76] National Association of Free Will Baptists – 0.2 million [77] Convention of Visayas and Mindanao of Southern Baptist Churches – 0.2 ...
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.
He found that the greatest number of Baptist churches at that time were Regular Baptist churches. [2] In the 1800s, the term Regular Baptist came to describe the Free Baptists. [2] This was a surprising change as the term regular initially described the opposing position to the Free Baptists (i.e., particular atonement).
In the past couple years, the Nashville-based SBC disfellowshipped six churches in which women serve as pastors and a proposed measure to enshrine a ban on women pastors received initial approval.
Some denominations with similar names and historical ties to the Seven Sisters mainline groups are not considered mainline: The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) [13.2 million], [70] Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) [1.8 million], [71] the Churches of Christ and Christian churches [1.1 million each], [72] [73] the Presbyterian Church in ...