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In Praise of LeGoff

One never knows… Sometimes help can come from some unexpected places. I was talking with a colleague, a literature professor, and he recommended Jacques Le Goff’s Must We Divide History into Periods? It’s a fascinating little book! I have no desire to spoil it for anyone who has not read it, so I will issue

By |2022-10-15T20:55:22+00:00October 25th, 2022|Categories: Featured|0 Comments

My First Book

I have been writing on aspects of Baptist history since my graduate school days at the University of Kentucky. By my calculations that means I have been doing this for…a very long time. I have written/edited a number of books and I plan to write about them from time to time. Some stories are so

By |2022-10-15T20:54:33+00:00October 17th, 2022|Categories: Book Reviews|0 Comments

Why Baptist History?

Of all things, you may ask, why in the world would you blog about denominational history – Baptist history at that? I mean, who cares? Right? It’s a fair question and my best answer is, I care and over the course of this blog’s lifespan, I hope you will see why.

By |2022-10-07T12:46:21+00:00October 7th, 2022|Categories: Featured|0 Comments

About Everything

About me… Hello, my name is Keith Harper, and I am Senior Professor of Baptist Studies at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina where I have taught since 1996. In addition to my teaching responsibilities, I also edit the America’s Baptists Series for the University of Tennessee Press. It may go without

By |2022-10-07T12:47:00+00:00October 7th, 2022|Categories: Featured, News|0 Comments
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