Visiting Voices
 History Lesson
By Judy Henderson Prather
The annual Parchman Endowed Lectures at Truett Seminary on October
14-16 was given by one of the leading spokespersons for Baptist history
in our time.
Dr. Bill J. Leonard, dean of the Divinity School at Wake Forest
University as well as a professor and scholar of church history,
presented the three morning lectures.
"We owe a great debt to those sixteenth and seventeenth century
dissenters who spoke out because they could not remain silent," Leonard
said. "Then and now, we Baptists don't all agree on one tune. You see,
it's a matter of conscience, and when you open the door to conscience,
it's the nature of Baptist polity to be messy. I love that about
Baptists. It's a painful, awful, terrible, wonderful learning
experience. But the dynamism, in the end, is worth it."
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