Baptists in America have battled over, among other issues, believer’s baptism versus infant baptism, the American Revolution, established state churches, the necessity of missions and revivalism, slavery and the Civil War, cooperation between black and white Baptists, science and modernism, adaptation to culture, segregation and civil rights and, to narrow their latest great conflict down to one point, the Bible. University of Virginia law professor Douglas Laycock has observed the shifting nature of groups within society, Hankins recalled, saying: “Because we live in this world wh...
