News & Commentary About All Things Baptist

The funeral for North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms – described by NPR as a conservative purist – is being held tomorrow (Tuesday) at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh, a decidedly moderate Baptist congregation. In an article published in Commonweal titled “The Right Hand of God: Jesse Helms’s Political Theology,” Hayes Barton is described as: [...]

Here is a link to the Introduction of my paper entitled “Evangelical Centrists and Moderate Baptists: The Case For Incompatibility.” You can read the entire paper here. Tomorrow, I will post a section on Substantive Neutrality and Saturday I will post sections on the Baptist Joint Committee and the Texas Christian Life Commission. The second [...]

Like last week, this upcoming week will be a light blogging period for me. I’ve got a paper to write and my last thesis chapter to finish. So, in light of that – I’m going to post a paper that I recently wrote. It’s divided up into 5 parts with today being the Introduction. After [...]

Below is my article from the Spring issue of The Whitsitt Journal, a semi-annual publication of the William Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society. Founded in 1992, following 12 years of denominational infighting among Southern Baptists, the William Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society was birthed by moderate Baptist historians concerned that fundamentalism endangered much of traditional Baptist heritage. [...]