by Heather A. Ross, Christian educator & curriculum writer About the Author After years of teaching history in Christian schools, I came to feel something with increasing force: if I wanted my students to embrace with conviction the biblical, Baptist truths for which many suffered and died, I often had to go looking for Baptist stories myself. The Baptist stories—the ones marked by conviction, conscience, suffering, courage, and faithfulness—were usually missing altogether in the Protestant view of Christian history that surfaced in Christian textbooks. Again and again, I wanted to place before students lives that were not only historically meaningful, but distinctly Baptist . Baptists are not incidental figures standing at the edge of history. Their churches mattered. Their witness mattered. Their books mattered. Their sufferings mattered. The truths for which they stood mattered. Baptist history bears its own clear marks. It is marked by the authority of Scripture,...
Reflections on God-centered education, teaching, and formation of character