On Oct. 25-26, 1861, a group of Baptist delegates from several churches met with the Valley Town Baptist Church on Valley River in North Carolina and organized the Friendship Baptist Association. Among the first orders of business was adoption of a confession of faith which all the churches forming the alliance could embrace. Below is […]
Free Church Anabaptists not Magisterial Reformers unloaded the theological dead wood of medievalism
Below is an excerpt from a 1918 historical essay by Rufus M. Jones (1863-1948), Quaker Christian and then Professor at Haverford College. Published in Harvard Theological Review, “The Anabaptists and Minor Sects in the Reformation” remains an enlightening read on the rise of Anabaptism during (and even before) the days when reformers like Luther, Calvin and Zwingli […]