Baptists

Cultural  

1. A group of Christian communities marked chiefly by insistence on adult baptism by immersion. Baptists regard baptism as a ceremony that accompanies and seals a conscious profession of faith in Jesus; for this reason, they do not baptize infants but wait until candidates have reached their teen or adult years. The Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination in the United States and are particularly insistent on the separation of church and state.

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Example Sentences

Born in Michigan and raised in Glendale by devout Baptists, he became conscious of “the shame and the degradation” of poverty when his father’s business ventures flopped.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2024

Both are Baptists who talk about faith values.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2024

The Osteens were both Southern Baptists, and John Osteen pastored a congregation in Houston at the time.

From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2023

In a video circulated to Southern Baptists last week, Mr. McLaurin praised the work of the denomination’s pastors, teachers and seminary professors.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2023

If the Baptists hadn’t taken upon themselves the religious conversion of the Congolese.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver