Who Were the Danbury Baptists?
The Baptist story is integral to the history of the United States. Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to a committee of the Danbury Baptist Association is well known for the clause “a wall of separation between Church & State.”[1] Who were the Danbury Baptists? Who were the committee members? Why would an American President send a letter […]
A Baptist Faith-Healing?
What is a Baptist understanding of miracles in the church? While Calvinistic Baptists have been associated with cessationism—the belief that the miraculous events such as those found in the book of Acts ceased after the first century—the tradition’s past holds a few surprises. Baptists emerged as a distinct group in the early seventeenth-century, a tumultuous […]