Book Review by J. Stanley Lemons
John Barry, a prize-winning author whose books have examined George Washington, cancer, the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and the influenza pandemic of 1918, has produced an outstanding book about Roger Williams. In Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty, Barry argues that one of the great fault lines in American history has been the relationship of church and state and the individual and the state.
Written by Charles C. Haynes, Director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum
Religious freedom is hugely popular in America — until, of course, it’s applied to unpopular groups. Consider North Windy Ridge Intermediate School in Buncombe County, N.C. In December, school officials arranged for students to come by the office during break to pick up Bibles donated by the Gideons.
Written by Don Byrd
Baptist historian Bill Leonard was officially installed Jan. 24 as the first James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Named in honor of the Dunns of Winston-Salem, N.C., the endowed chair will provide an ongoing Baptist studies faculty presence at the divinity school.
