Profiles in Goodwill: Doug Weaver

Profiles in Goodwill: Doug Weaver

Doug Weaver is the director of undergraduate studies and professor of Baptist studies in the Department of Religion at Baylor University. Where did you grow up? I was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and lived in Triangle, Virginia (next to Quantico Marine Base). We...

Racial Reconciliation Is Not a Past Event

I often have college students do an essay on race relations and the Christian heritage in light of reading Martin Luther King, Jr. Most students express an appreciation of King’s life and work but many add: “We are glad that the issue of race relations is...

Isaac Backus: A Vote for the Common People

I was introduced to a meeting of a rural association by a member of a church where I was doing an interim pastorate. The man told the crowd, “We are glad to have preaching to us tonight, Dr. Doug Weaver. He teaches at the college down the road. But we...