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  • Honoring Baptists

    A Community Service Celebrating 400 Years of Baptist Heritage, 1609-2009 Robert L. Doty Introduction This essay was originally written as a narrative for presentations celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Baptists by the Elizabethtown Area Sacred Community Choir on February 27 and March 1, 2009, at Campbellsville University and Elizabethtown Baptist Church, respectively. In addition to…

  • Baptist Affiliation

    William Loyd Allen Lecture, Baptist Heritage Lecture Series March 3, 2015 In 2006, the Georgia Baptist Convention severed its ties with Mercer University, ending a 170-year-old relationship between the two. When the news broke, a student in one of my classes asked: “Dr. Allen, what happens now that Mercer is no longer a Baptist school?”…

  • From the Editor

    In a sweltering gymnasium, Dr. E. Bruce Heilman (Campbellsville College, Class of 1949) delivered one of the most inspiring addresses on campus within the past two years. A veteran of World War II, who has experienced many of life’s challenges, he kept graduates, parents, family members, faculty, and staff with an energetic, humorous, and interesting…