Drawing from Baptist Press dispatches, missionary biographies, state historical chronicles, and centuries of Baptist life. New stories added regularly.
A commonplace book was a reader's personal notebook — a lifetime collection of remarkable stories, quotes, and passages gathered from years of reading, kept close for the moment they were needed. This is that, made searchable.
The Baptist Commonplace draws from over a century of Baptist life — Baptist Press dispatches, the Oklahoma Baptist Chronicle, the autobiographies of Spurgeon, the missionary journals of Judson and Carey, colonial church records, and more. Every entry is a true story from a real person of faith. Pastors find sermon material here. Historians find primary sources. Everyone else finds stories worth reading.
This project is free to use. It is a labor of love by Luke Holmes, pastor and historian. If it has been useful to you, you're welcome to support it.