The Baptist Reckoning

Why America's Largest Protestant Tradition Can't Avoid the Great Realignment

(Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., addressing the 84th Session of the convention, 1964.)

There's a pattern emerging in global Christianity that American Baptists can no longer afford to ignore—not because it's fashionable to discuss church politics, but because the very soul of a tradition is at stake. W…