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Article: The Sacred Trust: Sketches of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents.(Book Review)
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- Baptist History and Heritage
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- March 22, 2004
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The Sacred Trust: Sketches of the Southern Baptist Convention Presidents. By Emir Caner and Ergun Caner. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman & Holman Press, 2003.
In The Sacred Trust, church historians Emir and Ergun Caner present brief biographical sketches of each president of the Southern Baptist Convention. According to the authors, Southern Baptists have never been bereft of strong leadership, and every man who assumed the mantle of president led the convention under God's watchful eye.
Each chapter of The Sacred Trust deals with an individual president, including the first president, William Bullein Johnson, and the current one, Jack Graham. Legendary ...