Month: July 2012

(Presented by Mike Williams, professor of history, Dallas Baptist University, June 8, during the annual meeting of the Baptist History & Heritage Society in Raleigh, North Carolina. I’ve published it here with his permission.) 17So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.” 18It came about when the priests who carried the ark Read more . . .

Fifty years ago this week, Daddy took me to my first major league baseball game. It seems a little strange, I must admit, to write the words “fifty years ago.” A half-century! It doesn’t seem so long ago that the phrase “fifty years ago” would bring to my mind an image akin to the phrase “back Read more . . .

(Adapted from the TBC Baptist Briefs video series, First Baptists in America: 17th Century; and Baptists Fight for Religious Liberty in the New United States) In his classic history The Baptist Heritage, Leon McBeth writes that it was in 1639 that Roger Williams founded the first organized Baptist church in America in Providence, Rhode Island. However, Read more . . .