Editor’s note: As the Christian landscape changes, leaders must ask and answer a new question: What’s the future of denominations? This video is part of an occasional series that offers the thoughts of people across American Christianity on this vital issue. To see the entire series, click here.
[Updated: Bill J. Leonard is the Dunn Professor of Baptist Studies and professor of church history in the Wake Forest University School of Divinity.]
The Rev. Bill J. Leonard is the former dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. He is an ordained Baptist minister.
Leonard is the author or editor of many books, including “The Nature of the Church;” “Word of God Across the Ages: Using Church History in Preaching;” “God’s Last and Only Hope: The Fragmentation of the Southern Baptist Convention;” “Appalachian Christianity: Profiles in Regional Pluralism;” “Baptist Ways: A History;” and “Baptists in America.” His most recent books are “Baptist Questions, Baptist Answers” and “The Baptist Bible,” of which he was co-editor. Both books were published in 2009.
