World News for May 14, 2008

Posted May 14, 2008 in Web Exclusive, World News

• Christian groups are having difficulty carrying out their desire to assist the 1.2 million people in Myanmar affected by Cyclone Nargis more than a week ago. At least 100,000 people are thought to have perished, but the Burmese government is (Read more of this article…)

Why I Am a Regular Baptist - Myron J. Houghton

Posted May 12, 2008 in Web Exclusive, Core Articles

Article is taken from the May 2005 issue of the Baptist Bulletin.

Why I Am a Regular Baptist - Myron J. Houghton (2.47 MB)

Baptist Bulletin (Nov - 1941)

Posted in Web Exclusive, Classic Issues

Articles included in this issue:

• Fearing God But Serving Idols
• The Conflict Between the Modernists and the Fundamentalists in the Northern Baptist Convention Since 1920 - The Controversy over the Missionaries
• Pastoral Theology
• What Precisely is Academic Freedom?
• Flashes From Foreign Fields

November 1941 (5.88 MB)

World News for May 7, 2008

Posted May 7, 2008 in Web Exclusive, World News

• Obama’s church has a new pastor to take the place of Jeremiah Wright, who has been prominent in the news over his radical views. The new pastor, Otis Moss III, is (Read more of this article…)

Baptist Bulletin (Oct - 1941)

Posted May 5, 2008 in Web Exclusive, Classic Issues

Articles included in this issue:

• I Shall Not Want
• The Conflict Between the Modernists and the Fundamentalists in the Northern Baptist Convention Since 1920 - The Controversy over the Missionaries
• Pastoral Theology
• The Capital Parade in the Light of Bible Prophecy
• New Seminary Launched

October 1941 (7.09 MB)

Why I Am a Regular Baptist - John Greening

Posted in Web Exclusive, Core Articles

Article is taken from the February 2004 issue of the Baptist Bulletin.

Why I Am a Regular Baptist - John Greening (479 KB)

Earthquake Damages Princeton Church

Posted May 2, 2008 in Association News

Princeton, Ind.—Fire marshals in Princeton, Ind., have condemned the bell tower and auditorium of First Baptist Church in the aftermath of an earthquake on April 17.

Widely reported in the news media, the earthquakes were centered in Wabash County, Ill., about twenty miles from the church. Reports indicated the quakes were felt in Des Moines, Iowa, Chicago, and St. Louis, Mo. (Read more of this article…)

Bernard E. Northrup (1925–2008)

Posted in Web Exclusive, Association News

“I am a Christian Hebraist who has studied the Tanach for nearly fifty years,” was the way “Bernie” Northrup described himself in 2001. “I have taught it in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and in the English languages to many young men who were preparing to serve the Eternal. In the nearly fifty-five years that I have walked with Him, I have found that He always is faithful to His Word.” (Read more of this article…)

What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Regular’ Baptist?

Posted in Hot Topic, May/Jun '08 Issue

by Jeff Brodrick

In 1790, the same year the United States generated its first Federal Population Census, John Asplund compiled his Annual Register of the Baptist Denomination in America. Having a great desire and the wherewithal to have “travelled about 7000 miles, in about 18 months, chiefly by foot,” Mr. Asplund recorded for the very first time a comprehensive list of Baptist churches and associations in America.¹ This Baptist census is interesting because the author described the greatest number of Baptists in America as “Regular,” one of the first times this label occurs in early American print. Who were these Regular Baptists? (Read more of this article…)

Who Knew? Abe Lincoln was a Regular Baptist?

Posted in Hot Topic, May/Jun '08 Issue

A 1921 article in the New York Times gives some evidence of Abraham Lincoln’s religious roots, reporting that he was “reared in the simple faith of the ‘hard-shelled’ Baptist church.” Historians love tidbits such as this, because Lincoln’s religious beliefs were fairly ambiguous. By the time he reached adulthood, his own life seemed filled with contradictory clues about his devotional life. (Read more of this article…)