Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society
Courage Award

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Each year at the Society meeting, the William H. Whitsitt Courage Award is presented to a worthy recipient who has “demonstrated courage within the tradition and heritage of the Baptist faith,” and “in the face of strong opposition, has made a lasting contribution” to Baptist values through such things as “pursing intellectual integrity” and “championing soul freedom.” 

William H. Whitsitt received the first Courage Award posthumously in 1993. Whitsitt is the patron saint of this Society, which seeks to “foster the study of the Baptist heritage and to raise the historical consciousness of Baptists by honoring, preserving and affirming a treasured and threatened heritage.” 

 

The 2010 Winner of the Whitsitt Award is
Carolyn Weatherford Crumpler