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

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

Considering the sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic church and the Southern Baptists, I find it strange that so many Christians are concerned about Freemasons and Shriners and "the Illuminati" molesting their children.

From Salon • Aug. 13, 2023

Yet Christians of many stripes — including Baptists, Mennonites and others who call themselves “children of God” — were among the first people to use the new Saudi tourist visas.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2023

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

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver