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Church historian Bill Leonard received the J.M. Dawson Religious Liberty Award at a luncheon sponsored by the Religious Liberty Council of the Baptist Joint Committee. He urged Baptists to consider several "issues plaguing my conscience that I hope will distress ours."

2012 Archives

Civil War changed Southern Baptists, historian says

January 20, 2012

author: Administrator

ATLANTA (ABP) – The American Civil War affected Baptists in the South in profound ways that still reverberate more than 150 years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, says a new book by a Baptist historian.

2011 Archives

Civil War changed Americans’ view of Providence, historian says

October 6, 2011

author: Administrator

Americans in 1860s viewed the Civil War through the lens of God at work in human affairs—a lens left shattered by that bloody conflict, according to historian George Rable.

2011 Archives

Unlikely allies weave myth of Christian America, historian says

May 23, 2011

author: brandon

A seemingly unlikely alliance between conservative Christian evangelicals and Mormons recasts American history as the founding of a distinctively Christian republic, Stephen Stookey told a gathering of church historians.

2011 Archives

Huckabee defends praise for controversial historian

April 8, 2011

author: brandon

WASHINGTON (ABP) – Former and possible future presidential candidate Mike Huckabee went on Comedy Central’s Daily Show to defend his praise for David Barton, a leading advocate for the view that America was founded as a Christian nation using what critics call revisionist history.

2010 Archives

Baptist historian, college president Morgan Patterson dies

November 22, 2010

author: brandon

NOVATO, Calif. (ABP) -- Morgan Patterson, a historian who taught at four Southern Baptist seminaries and was president of a Baptist college, died Nov. 19 at age 85 at his home in Novato. Calif. He had been treated for pancreatic cancer.

Historian notes Baptist role in distressed and distressing conscience

Civil War changed Southern Baptists, historian says

Civil War changed Americans’ view of Providence, historian says

Unlikely allies weave myth of Christian America, historian says

Huckabee defends praise for controversial historian

Baptist historian, college president Morgan Patterson dies

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