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e. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission ( ERLC) is the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest Christian denomination in the United States. Brent Leatherwood has served as the ERLC president since September 13, 2022. [1] The commission is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with additional offices in ...
The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) is a US faith-based organization which focuses on upholding the historic Baptist principle of religious liberty.. With a staff of attorneys, public intellectuals, ministers and mobilizers, the Washington D.C. based non-profit has a long history of advocating in the U.S. Supreme Court and working with Congress on issues relating to ...
Launched. 1998. ( 1998) Current status. Active. The Landover Baptist Church is the website of a parody fundamentalist Baptist church. The church lampoons fundamentalist, Independent Baptist churches and Biblical literalism, and originated as a satire of Liberty University .
Southern Africa. African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc. African United Baptist Church. Association of Bible Baptist Churches in Madagascar. Baptist Convention of Angola. Baptist Evangelical Association of Madagascar. Baptist Union of Southern Africa. Baptist Union of Zambia. Igreja União Baptista de Moçambique.
Though perhaps the most unconventional example, Leatherwood isn't the first Southern Baptist executive to weather an embattled trusteeship. Trustee fights over removing presidents in closed-door ...
November 10, 1970. The First Baptist Meetinghouse, also known as the First Baptist Church in America is the oldest Baptist church congregation in the United States. The Church was founded in 1638 by Roger Williams in Providence, Rhode Island. The present church building was erected between 1774 and 1775 and held its first meetings in May 1775.
The Baptist Convention of Zimbabwe has its origins in an American mission of the International Mission Board in 1950. [1] This was at a time when the FMB had decided to start denominational work in Southern Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe ). The IMB appointed Clyde Dotson and his wife Hattie Dotson who were already serving in the country as ...
Since the early days of the Baptist movement, various denominations have adopted common confessions of faith as the basis for cooperative work among churches. [1] These would include beliefs about one God, the virgin birth, the impeccability, miracles, vicarious atoning death, burial and bodily resurrection of Christ, the need for salvation ...