Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church

What is the community like?
Binkley Baptist Church, founded in 1958, is a fellowship of active, ecumenically minded Christians with a strong commitment to inclusiveness and social justice ministries. The present membership comes from a wide variety of Christian backgrounds, theologies and traditions. A major principle of Binkley Church throughout its history has been inclusiveness. The founding members sought to establish a multi-cultural worshiping community early in the Civil Rights era. Binkley has encouraged the full participation of women who have served at every level of lay and ministerial leadership and have been licensed and ordained to the ministry. This openness has extended to a strong spirit of ecumenism. While originally organized as a Southern Baptist congregation, Binkley Baptist Church soon aligned with the American Baptist Churches and was a founding member of ABCOTS (American Baptist Churches of the South). Binkley Baptist Church has been an individual congregational member of the North Carolina Council of Churches for many years and more recently the Alliance of Baptists and the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists.

What if I'm not a Christian?
You are in good company. We are an ecumenical community and that also extends to people who don't identify as "believers" or Christians. People are drawn towards our community for a number of reasons: fellowship, time of contemplation, and engagement in social justice issues are