Cooperative Program giving in June jumped over giving in the same month a year ago. Baptists gave $1,783,569 last month, ...

Philip Randall Ellis, 86, of Ooltewah, Tennessee, died on July 6, 2025, at Gentle Hands Personal Care Home, Chattanooga, ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding light on the church's support for ending slavery.

It was signed two years after the issue of slavery prompted southern Baptists to split from northern Baptists and form the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in ...

Until its discovery in May at the archives in Groton, Massachusetts, American Baptist officials worried the anti-slavery document had been lost forever. Church officials consider the scroll one of ...

Anti-slavery document from 1847 reveals American Baptists' commitment to abolition A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old ...

It was signed two years after the issue of slavery prompted southern Baptists to split from northern Baptists and form the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.

GROTON, Mass. (AP) — Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding light on the church's support for ending slavery. The 5-foot-long ...