About the Author

Contributors to this volume include: Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Jann Aldredge-Clanton, Paul D. Duke, Thomas H. Graves, John H. Hewett, Dennis Lotz, Gary E. Parker, Kate Penfield, Samuel D. Proctor, Guy G. Sayles, Jr., James A. Scott, Cecil E. Sherman, Robert E. Shepard, Jr,. and James H. Slatton.

Walter B. Shurden is Minister at Large with Mercer University. He is author of numerous books including The Baptist Identity: Four Fragile Freedoms, Not a Silent People: Controversies that Have Shaped Southern Baptists and the five-volume Proclaiming the Baptist Vision set.