Southern Baptist

American  

noun

1. a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.

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Footage showed a chaotic scene unfolding inside the church, which belongs to the Southern Baptist Convention, as protesters and members of the congregation shout at each other.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention issued a statement calling the clip “intentionally derogatory and dehumanizing.”

From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2026

Richard Land, a longtime president of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention who says he has known Huckabee since the late 1970s, has similar concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025

The Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions through the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s that declared gambling sinful and urged the government to reject its normalization.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2025

Cabot Searcy, having been raised in a Southern Baptist church in Georgia, had little knowledge of this text before this first encounter.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley