Baptist Hats

Baptists tell the oldest jokes about themselves. The line that Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store has been in print since 1991, and the one about a ban on kissing standing up because it might lead to dancing goes back to 1983. This collection wears that humor and the identity underneath it. The Southern Baptist Convention reported 12.3 million members in 2025, with attendance up nearly 4 percent to 4.5 million and baptisms up 5 percent to 263,075, and it remains by far the largest Protestant denomination in the country. Plain badges here name BAPTIST and SOUTHERN BAPTIST for anyone raised in that world. The sentence designs carry the in-group lines: DUNKED NOT SPRINKLED, TWO BAPTISTS THREE OPINIONS, and the drinking-in-front-of-other-Baptists bit. Church life runs on food, too. Wednesday night suppers at a church like First Baptist in Kinston, North Carolina, serve country fare such as ham, green beans and pork chops, which is where the casserole-fed line comes from. Every hat is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Give one to the deacon, the youth group alum, or the friend who got baptized last Sunday.