There was the black, Southern, Baptist or Methodist preacher singing his song, telling our story.

有黑人，有南方人，有浸信会（清教徒）或卫理公会（新教）的传教士唱着他的歌，讲述着我们的故事。

That's the reason we became Southern Baptist.

所以我们才变成了美南浸信会教徒。

It is slowly doing so: whereas in 1990 95% of Southern Baptist congregations were white, only 80% are nowadays.

1990年时南方浸信会成员白人占95%，而今的白人只占80%。

I was the licensed to preach in the southern baptist church at age 15.

我15岁时获准在南方浸信会教堂传道。

“Frankly, I can't imagine a Southern Baptist pastor who would continue to allow his church to sponsor a Boy Scout troop under these new rules, ”

“坦白说，我很难想象，在实施新规定后，南浸礼会的牧师会同意他的教堂赞助童军。”

The Justice Department is investigating the Southern Baptist Convention after an outside report found the church had mishandled sexual abuse claims and mistreated victims for decades.

司法部正在调查美南浸信会，此前一份外部报告发现，该教会几十年来一直对性虐待指控处理不当并虐待受害者。

The Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee said in a statement Friday that several entities of the denomination are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

南方浸信会执行委员会星期五在一份声明中说，该教派的几个附属机构正在接受美国司法部的调查。

Or, in the words of a southern Baptist woman, asked on BBC television how she could vote for Trump given his moral failings: " We are all sinners."

或者用一位南方浸信会妇女的话来说，她在BBC电台被问及考虑到特朗普的道德缺陷为何还将票投给他：“我们都是罪人。”

He is a true-blue Southern Baptist who inveighs against gay marriage and abortion from the pulpit, but also displays a gift for passionate, humorous preaching that has its roots in his past as a street minister.

他是一位坚定的南方浸信会信徒，在讲坛上常常怒斥同性婚姻和堕胎；他还展现了幽默热情的布道天赋，作为街道牧师他的天赋展露无遗。