Baptists in America - SBC Conservative Resurgence

In this lecture, I discuss the conservative resurgence in the SBC.

Baptists in America - week 14 - SBC Conservative Resurgence (audio)

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Baptists in America - New Evangelicalism

In this lecture, I discuss some of the key figures that shaped the new evangelicalism movement.

Baptists in America - week 13 - New Evangelicalism (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - Fundamentalism’s Fallout

In this lecture, I talk about Richard V. Clearwaters, Pillsbury Baptist Bible College, the GARBC, and Billy Graham.

Baptists in America - week 12 - Fundamentalism’s Fallout (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - Fundamentalists and Modernists (part 2)

In this lecture, I talk about fundamentalists and modernists in the first half of the 1900s. I also cover the Conservative Baptist Association.

Baptists in America - week 11 - Fundamentalists and Modernists (part 2) (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - Fundamentalists and Modernists (part 1)

In this lecture, I talk about fundamentalists and modernists in the late 1800s.

Baptists in America - week 10 - Fundamentalists and Modernists (part 1) (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - Later Missions Efforts

In this lecture, I talk about six American Baptists who served as missionaries oversees (mostly during the 1800s).

Baptists in America - week 8 - Later Missions Efforts (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - The Southern Baptist Convention

In this lecture, I talk about the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention and other events in the first half of the 1800s that shaped Baptist churches in the US.

Baptists in America - week 7 - the Southern Baptist Convention (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

Note: For those of you following along with these posts in real-time, there will be a blog post next week (October 29), but it will not be a part of this series. The next post in this series will go live on November 5.

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Baptists in America - Triennial Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention

In this lecture, I talk about the Triennial Convention and some of the events that led to the beginning of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Baptists in America - week 6 - Triennial Convention and the SBC (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - African American Baptists

In this lecture, I talk about some key African American Baptists.

Baptists in America - week 5 - African American Baptists (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - Higher Education and the Triennial Convention

In this lecture, I talk about some of the earliest Baptist higher education institutions in the U.S., the Triennial Convention, and how the Southern Baptist Convention was formed.

Baptists in America - week 4 - Higher Education and the Triennial Convention (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - Early Baptists and the Start of Associations

In this lecture, I talk about Luther Rice, different branches of Baptists, and the start of Baptist educational institutions in North America.

Baptists in America - week 2 - Early Baptists (audio)

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Baptists in America - Roger Williams and Other Early Baptists

In this lecture, I talk about Roger Williams and the beginnings of Baptists in North America.

Baptists in America - week 1 - Roger Williams (audio)

Some extra resources:
- short podcast episode on Roger Williams
- works by Roger Williams at Project Gutenberg
- works by or about Roger Williams at Internet Archive

Timeline of the people that we are covering as well as other events that impacted these times.

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Announcing: Baptists in America Class

Starting in September, I am going to be teaching a class at my church looking at the history of Baptists in America. I’ll be posting the audio from each week here on my blog along with some other resources that will hopefully bring this topic to life.

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What I’m Currently Reading

I work part-time in an office, and during the school year, I teach two days a week in two different homeschool groups. I teach science and social studies for middle and high school.

During the summers, this means that my schedule is a little more free (although, I do some online teaching throughout the summers). One of my big goals each summer is to prepare for whatever classes I am teaching the following school year.

This summer, I am doing a lot of reading as I prepare for the coming fall, and I wanted to highlight some of what I have been reading.

One of the classes I am going to be teaching is on J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and their world from 1900-1939. My students will read The Hobbit in the fall semester and Out of the Silent Planet in the spring semester. Beyond those two books, we’ll also be talking about events andchanges in the world during the first part of the 1900s. As part of my preparation for that course, here are some of the articles I’ve been reading:
- Propaganda and Caricature in the First World War
- We work with shells all day and night': Irish female munitions workers during the First World War

I have more resources on C. S. Lewis linked here and more on J.R.R. Tolkien linked here.

I’m also going to be teaching a class at my church this fall covering Baptists in America. I’ll be writing more about this class as we get closer to September, and I am planning on posting the recordings and some resources for that class here on my blog this fall. In preparation for that class, here are some of the articles and books I’ve been reading:
- Baptists in America: A History by Barry G. Hankins and Thomas S. Kidd
- Becoming Baptists: Conversion in Colonial and Early National Virginia
- The Black Atlantic Missionary Movement and Africa, 1780s-1920s
- South Carolina Baptists, the Primitive-Missionary Schism, and the Revival of the Early 1830s
- White Protestants and the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky



I’ve also been hosting a book club for the paid subscribers to my substack. We’ve been reading through all of C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy. I’ve also been doing some background reading to help me add to our discussion. Here are some of the articles I’ve been reading for that:
- Law and Disorder: Two Settings in "That Hideous Strength"
- Merlin, Magic, and the Meta-fantastic: The Matter of "That Hideous Strength"
- “The Packed Reality of Heaven”: C. S. Lewis’s Imaginative Re-education of the Modern Pilgrim
- Paradise Retained
- Paradise Retold
- Prometheus on Perelandra: The Inversion of the Satanic Hero in C.S. Lewis's Perelandra
- Space Ship and Grail: The Myths of C. S. Lewis

I regularly highlight what books I am reading in my monthly newsletter. You can find all my recommendations saved here.

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