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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.”
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