Sentence examples for Baptist from inspiring English sources

Aged 13, she returned to the US and lived for a short while with her father before being placed in a succession of foster homes and, finally, a baptist children's home.

The group guiding the current protests – set up 18 months ago by two professors and a baptist minister under the banner Occupy Central with Love and Peace — threatened to paralyse the city's central business district if Beijing broke its word.

This was Shelby, a landscape of clapboard Baptist churches and faceless corporate franchises, where one man, acting in almost total isolation, had over a period of eight years cemented his reputation as the most fearsome digital pirate of all.

Co-stars include Benedict Cumberbatch as a Baptist preacher, Quvenzhané Wallis (Oscar-nominated for Beasts of the Southern Wild) as Northup's daughter and co-producer Brad Pitt in a supporting turn as a Canadian carpenter and outrider for the abolitionist cause.

Huckabee, a former Baptist minister, showed strongly in the 2008 Republican primaries, winning the Iowa caucus.

Mr Cain is a Baptist preacher and motivational speaker: he can fire up an audience, stoke it to its feet and have it erupt with fist-pumping cheers.

Southern Baptists have long since updated their views on race, as the many black Southern Baptist pastors attest, but the movement's social conservatism endures.

Mr Walker told me that to his Baptist-separationist mind, the government's latest formula (somewhat broadening the range of opt-outs for religiously-affiliated employers) had it about right.

An hour south of Austin, in the lobby of the Westoak Woods Baptist Church convention centre, morgellons sufferers from the US, UK, Spain, Germany and Mexico gather by the breakfast buffet.

He's in Atlanta, the birthplace of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, in the 50's and 60's – Martin Luther King was preaching at Atlanta's Ebenzer Baptist Church on Sundays until 1968 – formative years for the civil rights movement and anyone born in 1945!

Born Nellie Burgin into a poor family in Knoxville, Tennessee, she moved to Los Angeles with her Southern Baptist family when she was in her early teens.