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The Baptist Directory

The Baptist Directory

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 The Baptist Directory is a podcast giving in-depth biographical sketches of historical Baptists from the 16th through 21st centuries. This includes figures of repute and infamy, with the intention that listeners and viewers will come to recognize and understand Baptist history.hmichaelshultzjr World
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  • Baptist Comity

    Baptist Comity
    Jan 17 2026

    Throughout the late 1800's and early-to-mid 1900's, Baptists in America operated on a system which banned Southern Baptists from doing mission work in the American North, and which banned Northern Baptists from doing mission work in the American South.

    How was that necessitated? How did it work? Why did it fall apart? This episode answers these and other questions.
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    55 mins
  • Hitler and the Baptists

    Hitler and the Baptists
    Dec 28 2025

    In 1934, the Baptist World Alliance had their Congress in Berlin at the exact time that Adolf Hitler was elevated from Chancellor to Fuhrer. As the Nazis had official positions on religious practice, the Baptists took the opportunity to have meetings with Hitler and Reichsbishop Ludwig Müller. Representatives of the Southern Baptist Convention, Northern Baptist Convention, and Baptist Union of Great Britain sought to discuss religion with Hitler, and influence antisemitism and nationalism with German Baptists.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • The C.S. Carnes Defalcation

    The C.S. Carnes Defalcation
    Jun 24 2025

    In 1928, Clinton Samuel (C.S.) Carnes was the treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board (now NAMB). Carnes stole around $1,000,000 and disappeared. This is his story, and the story of how he did it.
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    1 hr and 56 mins
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