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NEWS FROM THE BH&HS:
Stay tuned for information about the Society’s 2018 annual conference, to be held at Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Long-time Georgia pastor and noted Baptist leader Dr. John M. Finley has is the new executive dir
ector of the Baptist History and Heritage Society. Dr. Finley may be contacted by email.
On Friday, June 30 at this year’s Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly Bruce Gourley led a breakout session on behalf of the BH&HS, titled “What Does Baptist Dissent Look Like, and Why Does it Matter?”
Society member and University of Mary Hardin-Baylor professor Carol Crawford Holcomb has been recognized by a local newspaper for receiving the BH&HS W. O. Carver Distinguished Service Award.
United in Diversity: Our Baptist Witness Past and Present by Bruce Gourley has been published in the CBF Illuminations Series
Video and Audio Resources:
A FREE VIDEO FOR USE IN CBF CONGREGATIONS:
Stories and Hopes of young CBF Baptists is a new video produced in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and with funding from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation.
Click here for more video and audio resources.
“Our Faith Heritage: Sharing Christ’s Love in Word and Deed”
Bruce Gourley, preaching at Central Baptist Church Bearden, Knoxville, Tennessee (2016)
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