It was in the Baptist churches of Montgomery and Selma that the civil rights movement was born.
Southern Baptist churches sponsor a program called Royal Ambassadors that is similar to Scouts but that emphasizes Bible teachings.
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Founded in 1908, this is a program run by Southern Baptist churches for boys in first through sixth grade.
Cabral's church has 35 members, barely enough to cast a decent shadow in the annex of larger Southern Baptist churches.
But if prohibition is ever to fully die out, it could be down to changes going on within the Baptist churches themselves.
The SBC's official news agency, Baptist Press, recently reported that the Royal Ambassador program might spread to more Southern Baptist churches if the BSA's ban is lifted.
The other applicants in the case were the Reformed Presbyterian Church, the Congregational Union, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Association of Baptist Churches, the Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches and Christian Camping International.
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The letter is in support of a campaign by the Children's Society which it said has also received support from the Roman Catholic and Methodist Churches, the Baptist Union, the United Reform Church and the Evangelical Alliance.
Redemption Fellowship of Fall River is one of dozens of churches the Southern Baptist Convention has planted around New England in the last decade with a multi-million dollar push into territory skeptical of the South and increasingly indifferent to religion.
The Methodist and United Reformed Churches, the Church of Scotland and the Baptist Union jointly published the The Lies We Tell Ourselves study.
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