General Discussion

who are associated with the moderate to liberal wing of the various Baptist groups in the United States. It is a merger of the Associated Baptist Press and the Religious Herald, which was once the weekly news journal belonging to the Baptist General Association of Virginia.

Associated Baptist Press was an independent news agency that formed when conservatives took over the Southern Baptist Convention around 1989, and put fundamentalists in control of the trustees of Baptist Press, their news agency, and censored it. Wingfield is an editor for Baptist News Global which is the online publication resulting from the merger. It is in a partnership with the Baptist denominations and groups that either left the Southern Baptist Convention when conservatives took over, or who are of the same doctrinal and theological perspective. Because these groups actually are true to their Baptist roots, the vast majority of the churches would find themselves quite sympathetic to any anti-Trump political perspective, and are open in their opposition to the intrusion and invasion of extremist right wing Trumpism into Evangelical churches, or any other Christian group.

I've posted numerous articles and op-eds from BNG at DU, and they are usually pretty well read.

Politically, among the most notable Baptists in American politics who belong to the denominations that are represented by this particular perspective would be former President Jimmy Carter, and former Vice President Al Gore. Former President Bill Clinton once belonged to a Baptist church affiliated with the largest of the groups that separated from the SBC but I think he's full blown Methodist now.