Thanks to the Resurgence...

I remember traveling to Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings during key battleground years of the Conservative Resurgence. In New Orleans, I rode a riverboat. In San Antonio, I visited the Alamo. And in Houston, I went to a water park and an Astros game. It's not that I was apathetic and skipped the sessions. I was just a child who knew nothing about Baptist life tagging along on a family trip.

With the beginning of the Resurgence now 35 years past, there are countless Southern Baptists like me who are too young to remember the struggle to make belief in the Bible's inerrancy a bedrock conviction of all convention entities. On this anniversary, let's recap some of the tangible differences that the Conservative Resurgence made, thankful for the courageous Baptists who struggled a generation ago: