Ridgeland is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 24,047 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Jackson, Mississippi metropolitan area.
Mississippi College (MC) is a private Baptist college in Clinton, Mississippi. Founded in 1826, MC is the second-oldest Baptist-affiliated college in the United States and the oldest college in Mississippi.
Cedarville University is a private Baptist university in Cedarville, Ohio. It is chartered by the state of Ohio, approved by the Ohio Board of Regents, and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is a Baptist, non-profit institution of higher education associated with the Southern Baptist Convention; the seminary was established in 1908, and is located in Fort Worth, Texas. It is one of the largest seminaries in the world and is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, and the National Association of Schools of Music to award diploma, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. The Baptist Faith and Message (2000) is the seminary's confessional statement. The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and the Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood provide further interpretive guidance related to the seminary's doctrinal positions on the nature of biblical inspiration and gender roles, respectively.
Palmer Theological Seminary is a multidenominational seminary affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. United Methodists, Presbyterians, Mennonites, African Methodist Episcopalians, and other Protestant church denominations are represented both on the Palmer faculty and in its student body. It was founded in 1925 as Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Its parent institution is Eastern University. Palmer Theological Seminary is located on the Eastern University campus at 1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) is a private Southern Baptist seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the first institution created as a direct act of the Southern Baptist Convention. Missions and evangelism are core focuses of the seminary.
Louisiana Christian University (LCU) is a private Baptist college in Pineville, Louisiana, with a usual enrollment of 1,100 to 1,200 students. Although the college is affiliated with a group of Southern Baptist churches, which make up the membership of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, students need not be a member of that denomination to attend. The college's mission is to serve as "a Christ-centered community committed to Academic Excellence where students are equipped for Lives of Learning, Leading, and Serving."
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) is a Baptist seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. It is the oldest of the six seminaries affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). The seminary was founded in 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina, where it was at first housed on the campus of Furman University. After being closed during the Civil War, it moved in 1877 to a newly built campus in downtown Louisville and moved to its current location in 1926 in the Crescent Hill neighborhood. For more than fifty years Southern has been one of the world's largest theological seminaries, with an FTE enrollment of over 3,300 students in 2015.
Grady C. Cothen, Sr., was a pastor, state convention executive secretary-director for the Southern Baptist Convention, author, university president, and seminary president.
William Carey Crane was an American Baptist minister, an educator, and the president of Baylor University from 1864 to 1885.
Heritage College & Seminary is a Canadian evangelical institution of higher education located in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Heritage was founded in 1993 by the merger of two evangelical Baptist seminaries in Ontario: Central Baptist Seminary and London Baptist Seminary.
Joe Wallace Aguillard is the eighth former president of the Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana.
Robert Lee Lynn was a prize-winning poet in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, who from 1975 to 1997 was the sixth president of Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. Previously he was an administrator and interim president at his alma mater, Oklahoma Baptist University, and a journalist primarily for a Baptist press.
George Earl Guinn, known as G. Earl Guinn, was from 1951 to 1975 the fifth president of Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana.
Edgar S. Godbold was the fourth president of Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana, a position which he held from 1942 until his retirement in 1951.
William Christopher Friley, known as W. C. Friley, was a Southern Baptist clergyman and college president. He was from 1892 to 1894 the first president of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, and the second president from 1909 to 1910 of Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana. The two assignments were fifteen years apart.
Benjamin Marcus "Ben" Bogard was an American Baptist clergyman, author, editor, educator, radio broadcaster, and champion debater in primarily the U.S. state of Arkansas. In 1924, Bogard founded the American Baptist Association, commonly called the Missionary Baptist denomination, based in Texarkana, Texas. In 1928, Bogard successfully pushed for an Arkansas state law which banned the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools; the law was overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 1968, seventeen years after Bogard's death.
J. D. Grey, sometimes known by his adopted name as James David Grey, was a major figure in the Southern Baptist Convention and from 1937 to 1972 was the pastor of the large First Baptist Church of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Wilmer Clemont Fields was an American Southern Baptist minister, public relations executive, newspaper editor, and the (co-)author or editor of 30 books. He was a pastor in Louisiana, Kentucky and Mississippi. He was the editor of The Baptist Record and Baptist Program, a director of the Baptist Press, and the vice president for public relations for the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. He was a defender of the freedom of the press.
Joshua Joy Dara Sr. is an African-American academic, non-denominational pastor, lawyer, and former political candidate. Dara is the pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church, which has a congregation of over 4,000. Dara has served as an attorney for decades and is licensed to practice in the states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. In 2015, he was the Republican candidate for Louisiana's 29th State Senate district, but was defeated by Jay Luneau. Since 2020, he has served as the Associate VP for Student Engagement and Enrichment at Louisiana College.
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