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Author Randall Balmer delivered the Baptist Joint Committee's Shurden Lectures at Mercer University last week. Videos of those presentations are online here. " Where Have All the Baptists Gone: The Betrayal of an American Institution", lecture two, is a barnburner and favorite of mine, but they are all worth watching.
 
 
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