Reverend Joshual Corder, a Baptist minister, gathered a few citizens of Southern sympathies, to call on Jones and plead with him to spare the structure ; ;

Many see Calvinism as growing in acceptance, and some prominent Reformed Baptists, such as Albert Mohler and Mark Dever, have been pushing for the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a more Calvinistic orientation.

* Southern Baptist views on Judaism and other faiths

Others join " conventions ", such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Baptist Convention or the American Baptist Churches USA ( formerly the Northern Baptist Convention ).

Most Southern Baptist and National Baptist congregations, by contrast, generally relate more closely to external groups such as mission agencies and educational institutions than do those of independent persuasion.

Denominations that oppose homosexuality include the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox churches and some mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Methodist churches, Reformed Church in America the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Southern Baptist Convention.

This view is prevalent amongst Reformed Baptists, those in the Founders movement ( a Calvinistic movement within the Southern Baptist Convention ), some Primitive Baptists, Strict Baptists, and several individuals in other Baptist associations.

Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. ( August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007 ) was an American evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator.

Methodism boasts the largest number of higher education ministries, including teaching positions, of any Protestant denomination in the world in close competition with the Southern Baptist Convention.

However the Southern Baptist Convention rejected the 2011 update because of gender-related issues.

Southern Baptist publisher LifeWay declined the SBC censor to remove the NIV from their stores.

There are, for instance, numerous prominent US examples, including The Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Criswell College in Dallas, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and Dallas Theological Seminary.

In the United States, it ranks as the largest mainline denomination, the second largest Protestant church after the Southern Baptist Convention, and the third largest Christian denomination.

The Presbyterian Church in America and the Southern Baptist Convention passed resolutions opposing the TNIV and other inclusive-language translations.

During the academic year 2005-6, he was briefly the Carl F. H. Henry Professor of Theology and Science at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as the first director of the school's new Center for Theology and Science ( since replaced by prominent creationist Kurt Wise ).< ref >< cite > Creationist to will lead seminary science center </ cite > Peter Smith.

These denominations include the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox church, the Methodist Church, and many other mainline denominations, such as the Reformed Church in America and the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, and fundamentalist groups and churches, such as the Southern Baptist Convention.

He was raised in the Southern Baptist faith, where he first began performing as a comedian for other children at Sunday School.

Bellevue Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist megachurch in Memphis that was founded in 1903.

In an interview with The Politico, University of Virginia theologian Charles Marsh, author of Wayward Christian Soldiers and the son of a Southern Baptist minister, stated:

Frank Stagg, PhD, ( 1911-2001 ) was a Southern Baptist theologian, seminary professor, author, and pastor over a 50-year ministry career.

Although the Southern Baptist Convention was organized in 1845, no formal confession of faith was adopted until internationally known Baptist theologian Edgar Y.

* James Petigru Boyce ( 1827 – 1888 ), theologian and Southern Seminary founder

R. Albert Mohler, Jr. ( born October 19, 1959 ) is an American theologian and the ninth president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

James Petigru Boyce ( 1827 – 1888 ) served as a Southern Baptist pastor, theologian, author, and seminary professor.

Robert Lewis Dabney ( March 5, 1820 – January 3, 1898 ) was an American Christian theologian, a Southern Presbyterian pastor, and Confederate Army chaplain.

He helped Poe place some of his stories, and introduced him to Thomas W. White, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond.

* Fulmer, Hal W. " Southern Clerics and the Passing of Lee: Mythic Rhetoric and the Construction of a Sacred Symbol ," Southern Communication Journa l55 ( 1990 ): 355-71

The Widney Alumni House, the campus ' first building The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several figures in early Los Angeles history: a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs, an Irish Catholic former-Governor, John Gately Downey, and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W. Hellman.

One of the most high profile decisions in recent years by one of the Councils was a decision by the Mission Council of the South Central Jurisdiction which in March 2007 approved a 99-year lease of at Southern Methodist University for the George W. Bush Presidential Library.

Biographers Robert Caro and W. Marvin Watson offer a different perspective ; they write that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win what was forecast to be a very close race against Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr .. Johnson was needed on the ticket to help carry Texas and the Southern states.

W. T. Cosgrave's Crown-appointed Provisional Government of Southern Ireland effectively subsumed Griffith's republican administration with the death of both Collins and Griffith in August 1922.

* Failed amendments to the Wilmot Proviso by William W. Wick and then Stephen Douglas extending the Missouri Compromise line ( 36 ° 30 ' parallel north ) west to the Pacific ( south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California ), allowing the possibility of slavery in most of present day New Mexico and Arizona, and Southern California.

* Wood, W. Kirk, “ History and Recovery of the Past: John C. Calhoun and the Origins of Nullification in South Carolina, 1819 – 1828 ,” Southern Studies, 16 ( Spring – Summer 2009 ), 46 – 68.

Biographers Robert Caro and W. Marvin Watson offer a different perspective ; they write that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win what was forecast to be a very close 1960 election against Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr .. Johnson was needed on the ticket to help carry Texas and the Southern states.

* W. Richard West Jr., Southern Cheyenne, Founding Director, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

* W. Richard West, Sr., " Dick West " or Wahpahnahyah, Southern Cheyenne painter, educator, and Director of Art at Bacone College

* Norfolk Southern Railway's former N & W Kenova District

As a subsidiary of the L & SWR and its successor the Southern Railway, the W & CR was not a part of the London Underground system.

* Southern, R. W. Robert Grosseteste: The Growth of an English Mind in Medieval Europe.

* Trelease, Allen W., White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction Harper & Row, 1979

* Harold W. Stanley, Rhodes Scholar, and currently Associate Provost at Southern Methodist University

In 1887, during the first major Southern California land boom, W. F.

A representative of the Southern Pacific Railroad, D. W. Parkhurst, purchased the land from an early settler, John Firebaugh, and formed the town which he named after his own hometown of Exeter, England.

In 2001, the John W. Whitaker Inter-modal Terminal in Austell was named for John Whitaker, a Moultrie native who worked with Norfolk Southern most of his lifetime.

* History of Southern Illinois, G. W.

* History of Southern Illinois, G. W.

Kirksville ’ s other railroad, the Wabash Railroad, which became the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1960 and later became the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982 after N & W merged with Southern Railway, ran north and south.

* Gerald W. Sweitzer and Kathy Fields, The 50 Best Small Southern Towns, Atlanta: Peachtree Publishing Co., 2001 ( ISBN 1-56145-253-X )