Category: TBC blog (2010-2017)
Posts from the blog of Texas Baptists Committed, which ceased operations on July 31, 2017
Baptist Quotes on Separation of Church and State: 1644
by Bruce T. Gourley, Executive Director, Baptist History & Heritage Society
(originally published 2/5/2011 on Texas Baptists Committed blog)
“An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.” (Roger Williams, 1644, in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience) In this his most well-known volume, Williams, the first Baptist Read more . . .
Baptist Quotes on Separation of Church and State: 1612
by Bruce T. Gourley, Executive Director, Baptist History & Heritage Society
(originally published 1/29/2011 on Texas Baptists Committed blog)
To Bill Jones and Texas Baptists Committed I am grateful. My gratitude is for the courage that they – over the years – have exhibited in telling the story of our Baptist faith. And I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the conversation within this blog. The only way in which we can truly know Read more . . .