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William Douglas Meriwether was one of the wealthiest men in Kentucky during the Civil War Era, but he fell in love with a poor working-class woman he could never marry. Their love affair led to an excommunication from Antioch Baptist Church in 1868, just a couple of weeks before the couple was held…

Throughout the late 1800's and early-to-mid 1900's, Baptists in America operated on a system which banned Southern Baptists from doing mission work in the American North, and which banned Northern Baptists from doing mission work in the American South. How was that necessitated? How did it work? W…

In 1934, the Baptist World Alliance had their Congress in Berlin at the exact time that Adolf Hitler was elevated from Chancellor to Fuhrer. As the Nazis had official positions on religious practice, the Baptists took the opportunity to have meetings with Hitler and Reichsbishop Ludwig Müller. Repr…

In 1928, Clinton Samuel (C.S.) Carnes was the treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board (now NAMB). Carnes stole around $1,000,000 and disappeared. This is his story, and the story of how he did it.

Alexander MacLaren (1826-1910) was a Scottish Baptist preacher and contemporary of Charles Spurgeon. He was known as the "Prince of Expositors" and is considered the second-most-widely-read Baptist of all time, trailing only Spurgeon himself. His 17-volume Expositions of the Holy Scriptur…

J.D. Grey is most famous for being the pastor of the First Baptist Church in New Orleans, LA., but was also a monumental figure in Baptist politics throughout the mid-1900s, serving as President of the SBC and Executive Committee member of the BWA.

Roger Williams University was a Baptist institution for the education of black men and women immediately following the Civil War. While occupying prime real estate in downtown Nashville, TN., Roger Williams University faced adversity as Jim Crow laws pushed them out. Ultimately, theirs is a story o…

John Bunyan (1628-1688) is famously known as the author of Pilgrim's Progress, the second best-selling book of all-time in the English language. While little-known for his theological works and distinctives, Bunyan is an interesting character with many unique identifiers that distinguish him from B…

John Collett Ryland is famous (or infamous) for reprimanding William Carey when he asked to begin doing missionary work. However, in this episode we look at the life of Ryland and spend time examining that encounter with Carey, discussing if it went how the common story is told - or if it ever happ…