In the final installment of this three-part documentary series, we examine the profound challenges that reshaped Baptist life from the late nineteenth century into the twenty-first. Featuring cinematic narration, richly illustrated historical visuals, and primary-source quotations, Episode Three explores how industrialization, higher criticism, theological liberalism, fundamentalism, the Conservative Resurgence, the church growth movement, and the rise of celebrity pastors transformed the Baptist landscape in the modern era. From the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and the ministries of J. Frank Norris and Billy Graham to the influence of John MacArthur, Rick Warren, and the New Calvinist movement, this episode traces the theological, institutional, and cultural forces that continue to shape Baptist identity today. Along the way, it examines both the remarkable growth of the movement and the enduring questions surrounding biblical authority, ecclesiology, cooperation, and faithfulness in an age of modernity.
