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Sep 4, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Bill Leonard, Senior Columnist

    The fire(s) this time – Baptist News Global (opens the original)

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    Psalm 24:1 says: “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” In the conclusion to his 1962 masterful book The Fire Next Time, writer James Baldwin writes: Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we — and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious Blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others — do not falter in our duty now, we may b

  2. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Bill Leonard, Senior Columnist

    Practicing gospel dissent: LIKE NOW? (opens the original)

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    One of the greatest Christian dissenters I’ve ever known was James M. Dunn, late chief executive of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and founding faculty member of Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Like his dissenting Baptist forebears, James simply gave a gospel witness and let the Holy Ghost fall where it might. I shall never forget the day not long after the School of Divinity began when I was sitting in my office watching Professor Dunn testify at the cabinet appointmen

  3. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · Bill Leonard, Senior Columnist

    Supreme Court ruling annuls the idea of ‘Christian America’ (opens the original)

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    “America’s doors are closed fully to asylum seekers.” — White House aide Stephen Miller, describing the current U.S. policy toward certain immigrants “I was a stranger and you took me in.” — Jesus of Nazareth, describing the terms of the Last Judgment On June 25, the U. S. Supreme Court released a ruling on Mullin v. Doe, a case challenging the current administration’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants. TPS was established in 1990 through bipartisan congres

  4. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · Bill Leonard, Senior Columnist

    Our legacy of dissent (opens the original)

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    Toward the end of his life, the great dissenter and short-time Baptist Roger Williams (1603-1683) reflected on the founding of Providence Plantation in the American colony of Rhode Island, writing: I desired it might be for a shelter for persons distressed of conscience. I then communicated my purchase unto loving friends who desired to take shelter here with me. I’ve often thought that Corey D.B. Walker, dean of the School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, had something like that in mind whe

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