“In the quiet recesses of my heart, I am fundamentally a clergyman, a Baptist preacher.” Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream. That dream, however, has no hope of being understood apart from King’s Baptist identity. The son of…
Baptists venerating saints?
One enduring feature of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which distinguishes these branches from Protestantism in all its forms, is the veneration of Christian saints. This practice, which is extremely well documented in late antiquity and beyond, seemed to…

