One of the last of the great Baptist giants of the 19th century, B.H. Carroll had a tremendous impact as a preacher, pastor, ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to have been lost. By Aishvarya Kavi The Rev. John Odams, pastor of the ...

Founded as a Freewill Baptist educational institution, Bates College possesses one of the most important and comprehensive collections of archival and library material related to this denomination in ...

Concerned over the direction that some leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have recently taken, a number of pastors in the denomination have formed the “Conservative Baptist Network.” The ...

(RNS) — On June 9, two Southern Baptist pastors, Tom Ascol of Florida and Tom Buck of Texas, called on the delegates to next week’s denominational meeting in Nashville to rescind Resolution 9, which ...

“Racial reconciliation is not something that white people do for other people,” proclaimed Russell Moore in March. Moore, a white man from Mississippi, was opening a meeting of the Southern Baptist ...

Mercer University’s roots live in a small room on the third floor of Jack Tarver library. Under glass casing and among boxes, bins and stacks are early Baptist church records and original hand-written ...

On 21 Curve Street in West Newton, a quietly regal white building sits facing the road. The sign in the front identifies the structure as the historically Black Myrtle Baptist Church. For 149 years, ...

Before Lawrence Rodgers became pastor of Second Baptist Church of Detroit, he studied the church's proud history. That ...