Example sentences for: baptists

How can you use “baptists” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ( Use the time to contemplate how your fellow Baptists have been on the wrong side of every social policy from the civil-rights movement to gay rights with a stop-off to support the Vietnam War.)

  • Southern Baptists explain how marriage ought to work and Cardinal O'Connor of New York, never shy about his inside line on which political candidates will be going to hell, wants no Major League Baseball games on Good Friday (or at least not between noon and 3 p.m.) and no Little Leaguers missing church for ball.

  • Many of his neighbors were devout Baptists despite running the resort town's illegal gambling industry--the largest in the South.

  • The NYT off-lead is the news that the Southern Baptists, the nation's largest Protestant denomination, which counts among its adherents Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott, has, at its annual convention, amended its statement of essential beliefs to include the declaration that a woman should "submit herself graciously" to her husband's leadership, and a husband should "provide for, protect and lead his family."

  • Does this mean, Wilson wonders, thinking of other Bible passages, that the Southern Baptists condone slavery, or pool all their property, or abjure money lending or investment?


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