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Line 72: + + + + + + − − According to a 2006 report of CWNews: Baptists, Pentecostals and [[Catholic]]s and are among the Russian religious groups to complain of police failure to protect them from attacks or other unwarranted intrusions during church services, or of police raids to preclude them conducting religious activity-- such as the giving out religious literature- - which they regard as legitimate.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060629083510/http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=44638 Whose side are police on? Russian Christians ask], CWNews.com, 2006</ref> See: [[Restrictions on religious activity and/or religious persecution in Czarist, Soviet, and contemporary Russia]]
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Many Baptists (primarily in the Independent ranks) are opposed to modern "worldly" music inside or outside of the church even if the lyrics mention God or Jesus Christ, and some Baptist colleges like [[Pensacola Christian College]] prohibit students from listening to any music other than traditional church music or classical music.<ref>http://www.pcci.edu/pathway/</ref> However, many moderate and left-leaning churches do accept Christian rock and some forms of secular music.
Many Baptists (primarily in the Independent ranks) are opposed to modern "worldly" music inside or outside of the church even if the lyrics mention God or Jesus Christ, and some Baptist colleges like [[Pensacola Christian College]] prohibit students from listening to any music other than traditional church music or classical music.<ref>http://www.pcci.edu/pathway/</ref> However, many moderate and left-leaning churches do accept Christian rock and some forms of secular music.
== Baptists in Russia ==
''See also:'' [[Restrictions on religious activity and/or religious persecution in Czarist, Soviet, and contemporary Russia]]
According to a 2006 report of CWNews: Baptists, Pentecostals and [[Catholic]]s and are among the Russian religious groups to complain of police failure to protect them from attacks or other unwarranted intrusions during church services, or of police raids to preclude them conducting religious activity-- such as the giving out religious literature- - which they regard as legitimate.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060629083510/http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=44638 Whose side are police on? Russian Christians ask], CWNews.com, 2006</ref>
==Controversies==
==Controversies==
When [[Harvard University|Harvard's]] first president Henry Dunster abandoned Puritanism in favor of the Baptist faith in 1653, he provoked a controversy that highlighted two distinct approaches to dealing with dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The colony's Puritan leaders, whose own religion was born of dissent from mainstream Church of England, generally worked for reconciliation with members who questioned matters of Puritan theology but responded much more harshly to outright rejection of Puritanism. Dunster's conflict with the colony's magistrates began when he failed to have his infant son baptized, believing, as a newly converted Baptist, that only adults should be baptized. Efforts to restore Dunster to Puritan orthodoxy failed, and his apostasy proved untenable to colony leaders who had entrusted him, in his job as Harvard's president, to uphold the colony's religious mission. Thus, he represented a threat to the stability of society. Dunster exiled himself in 1654 and moved to nearby Plymouth Colony, where he died in 1658.<ref>Timothy L. Wood, "'I Spake the Truth in the Feare of God': the Puritan Management of Dissent During the Henry Dunster Controversy," ''Historical Journal of Massachusetts'' 2005 33(1): 1-19,</ref>
When [[Harvard University|Harvard's]] first president Henry Dunster abandoned Puritanism in favor of the Baptist faith in 1653, he provoked a controversy that highlighted two distinct approaches to dealing with dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The colony's Puritan leaders, whose own religion was born of dissent from mainstream Church of England, generally worked for reconciliation with members who questioned matters of Puritan theology but responded much more harshly to outright rejection of Puritanism. Dunster's conflict with the colony's magistrates began when he failed to have his infant son baptized, believing, as a newly converted Baptist, that only adults should be baptized. Efforts to restore Dunster to Puritan orthodoxy failed, and his apostasy proved untenable to colony leaders who had entrusted him, in his job as Harvard's president, to uphold the colony's religious mission. Thus, he represented a threat to the stability of society. Dunster exiled himself in 1654 and moved to nearby Plymouth Colony, where he died in 1658.<ref>Timothy L. Wood, "'I Spake the Truth in the Feare of God': the Puritan Management of Dissent During the Henry Dunster Controversy," ''Historical Journal of Massachusetts'' 2005 33(1): 1-19,</ref>
==Famous Baptists==
==Famous Baptists==