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

For six months, almost no one took notice of the brief filed quietly by Southern Baptists in a case winding its way to the Kentucky Supreme Court.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2023

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

From Washington Times • Oct. 19, 2023

Just then a married couple of Baptists in tortoiseshell sunglasses came out of the crowd and shook our hands.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver