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Alabama associated with the national convention, with 1,380,121 adherents.
564:, some Northern members opposed the appointment as missionaries of Southern Baptists who were slaveholders. Objecting to this infringement on their culture, in 1844, the ABSC passed the "Alabama Resolutions". Included was the following:
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in 1903. The purpose was to provide a Christian education to female students. Judson College remained affiliated with the ABSC throughout its history until it closed. It permanently ceased its academic operations on July 31, 2021.
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leadership roles. The ASBC did admit women delegates in 1913, years before they received the right to vote through the national amendment to the constitution. In 1972 the convention elected its first woman vice-president,
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and 40 slaves. He argued for the humanity of slaves, but thought the institution was part of the proper scheme of man's social structures, and that the Baptist religion could help support proper treatment of slaves.
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non-slaveholders, to all the privileges and immunities of their several unions; and especially to receive any agency, mission, or other appointment, which may run within the scope of their operation or duties.
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nature of the Alabama territory at the time. Later the delegates came from individual Baptist churches and regional associations as well. Prominent members of the convention in the early years included
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for appointment as a missionary because he was a slaveholder, Alabama and other southern state Baptist conventions withdrew their funding from the national convention and formed the
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of the 1950s and 1960s forced changes in the position of the organization on segregation. In 1956 the Christian Life Commission of the ABC described the first black student of the
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and provides funding and other forms of support to the national organization. There have been questions about the relationship. In summer of 2007 Russ Bush, academic dean of the
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A history of the rise and progress of the Baptists in Alabama
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Conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention
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Davis C. Wooley, ed. (1958). "Alabama Baptist Convention".
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This Side of Heaven: Race, Ethnicity, and Christian Faith.
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in 1993. The university remains affiliated with the ABsC.
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Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the heart of Dixie
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873:. Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. Archived from
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1792:. Alabama Baptist Retirement Centers. Archived from
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American autonomous association of Baptist churches
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994:. B&H Publishing Group. pp.
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1169:Howard College (1911).
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139:Conservative resurgence
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1636:. Samford University.
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1082:A Baptist Source Book,
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1660:"History of UMobile"
1634:"SAMFORD UNIVERSITY"
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1346:"All God's children"
1026:Wayne Flynt (1998).
935:on September 6, 2010
906:on September 6, 2010
877:on September 6, 2010
795:University of Mobile
595:Home Mission Society
591:Triennial Convention
1822:on August 27, 2010.
1712:"Welcome to Shocco"
1614:. November 28, 2017
1478:The Alabama Baptist
1365:The Alabama Baptist
1239:The Tuscaloosa News
1119:Joe Newman (2007).
1100:. Auburn University
1062:. Auburn University
756:Birmingham, Alabama
750:The Alabama Baptist
742:The Alabama Baptist
446:Greensboro, Alabama
305:Founders Ministries
220:Nashville Statement
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