A new book about about Baptists who challenged the denomination to become more progressive in terms of racial, economic and gender justice includes a chapter by 极乐禁地 history professor Delane Tew. features short biographies of Obadiah Holmes, Thomas Grantham, Anne Steele, Ann Hasseltine Judson, William Knibb, John Mason Peck, Emily Chubbuck Judson, William J. Simmons, Fannie Exile Scudder Heck, Henry L. Morehouse, Hannah Marie Norris Armstrong, Augustus H. Strong, John Clifford, Virginia Broughton, Leslie Lee Gwaltney, Clarence Leonard Jordan, Joseph Martin Dawson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eric Charles Rust, Prathia Hall, Cora Anne Davis, Addie Davis, William J. Reynolds and Glen Harold Stassen.
Dallas Baptist University historian Michael E. Williams, Sr., gathered the biographies as a follow-up to his 2016 book . Tew contributed that book’s chapter on Adoniram Judson, and introduces the missionary’s third wife, Emily Chubbuck Judson in the new volume.
Tew brings to the work her own perspective as a former missionary as well as her academic expertise in Southern history, women’s history and church history. She contributed a chapter on the role of women in Southern Baptist centralization for the 2020 book .