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This Baptist pastor went to jail over taxes. On February 6 in 1749, Isaac Backus was imprisoned for refusing to pay the tax that supported the state sponsored Congregational church. Backus believed forcing citizens to fund a church violated religious liberty. His resistance helped fuel the growing argument for separating church and state. What seemed like a small protest would later help shape a nation’s understanding of freedom, as Backus took his cause to the Continental Congress and fought fo

On this day in 1840, Baptist work officially began in Galveston, Texas. On January 30, 1840, the First Baptist Church of Galveston was formed. That Thursday evening, James Huckins, the first missionary to Texas sent by the Baptist Home Mission Society, met with nine charter members. Just days later, regular worship services began. From a small meeting, one of Texas’s early Baptist congregations was born. Follow for daily moments from Baptist history. | Southern Baptist History

Bill Wallace was an American surgeon who served as a Baptist missionary in southern China for nearly seventeen years. He worked through civil war, political upheaval, and social collapse treating civilians, soldiers, and the poor at Stout Memorial Hospital. As tensions rose in 1950, he was urged to leave. He chose to stay, knowing the risk of his life. Later that year, Wallace was arrested on false charges and held in solitary confinement. After weeks of imprisonment and interrogation, he was fo