Women and Ritual Authority in Afro-American Baptist Churches of Rural Florida

1988 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-10
Author(s):  
Audrey L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
American Baptist ◽  
Baptist Churches ◽  
Rural Florida

George Liele: Liberated slave and African American Baptist Missionary to Jamaica

2021 ◽  
pp. 009182962110435
Author(s):  
Noel Leo Erskine
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
American Baptist ◽  
Baptist Churches ◽  
Spanish Town

Liele introduced Baptist witness to Jamaica and served as pastor and educator of churches in Kingston and Spanish town cities there. Further, Liele was responsible for the conversion and baptism of another African American, Moses Baker, who migrated to Jamaica in 1783 and was a leader in establishing Baptist churches in western parishes in Jamaica. Beyond his work in Jamaica, Liele’s ministry reached as far afield as Nova Scotia, Canada, and Sierra Leone, Africa, through the influence of his protege, David George, who was first known as David, until he changed his name to “David George” in honor of his friend and mentor George Liele.

Mapping the World, Mapping the Race: The Negro Race History, 1874–1915

1995 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 610-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
George Washington ◽  
American Baptist ◽  
Baptist Churches ◽  
Howard University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Negro Race

In 1883, the African American Baptist preacher George Washington Williams published hisHistory of the Negro Race in America, 1619–1880. The book, a fundamentally optimistic account of the black presence in the New World, represented an attempt by the well-educated, northern divine to balance his commitments to an American evangelical tradition with an awareness of the ongoing oppression of his fellow African Americans at the hands of whites. “I commit this work to the public, white and black,” he noted in the preface, “to the friends and foes of the Negro in the hope that the obsolete antagonisms which grew out of the relation of master and slave may speedily sink as storms beneath the horizon; and that the day will hasten when there shall be no North, no South, no Black, no White,—but all be American citizens, with equal duties and equal rights.” The work revealed much about Williams: his upbringing in antebellum Pennsylvania as the child of an interracial union, his training at Howard University and Newton Theological Seminary, and his work experiences at Baptist churches in New England and Ohio. But this particular passage highlights the motivating force behind the book: it reveals, in anticipation of a historical narrative of over two hundred years of African enslavement, Williams's desire to recast much of the American past. Williams's historical account was, at heart, an attempt to impart moral meaning to the present by reconstructing the historical consciousness of both blacks and whites. In this desire, Williams fit precisely Friedrich Nietzsche's characterization of “historical men,” those who “believe that ever more light is shed on the meaning of existence in the course of itsprocess, and they look back to consider that process only to understand the present better and learn to desire the future more vehemently.”

Relations Never Better

Worldview ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. James Rudin
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Observation Group ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
American Baptist ◽  
Baptist Churches ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Right ◽  
General Secretary

In 1967 the American Christian community was criticized for its lack of support for Israel during those terrible weeks of dread when the publicly threatened Arab invasion of Israel drew closer with each passing day. But in 1973 it was different. This time there was no long period of escalating warlike actions coming from Israel's Arab neighbors. Instead, Egypt and Syria shattered the internationally sanctioned ceasefire by commencing full-scale armed hostilities on Judaism's holiest day, Yom Kippur. Almost immediately many American Christians reacted in shock and outrage. Dr. Robert Campbell, the general secretary of the American Baptist Churches, said: “The attack on Israel by Egypt and Syria as reported by our government and the United Nations observation group was a violation of international law and a threat to the right of Israel to exist as a state.” Some Christians condemned the Arab attack as a “travesty,” a “profanation” and a “criminal act of war.”

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