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Barrett Duke
Barrett Duke is an emeritus fellow at the ERLC. He is the executive director-treasurer for the Montana Southern Baptist Convention and the founding director of the Research Institute. Duke holds a Ph.D. from the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver, along with an M.A. from Denver Seminary and a B.A. from Criswell College. He and his wife, Denise, have three grown children.
FIRST-PERSON: For freedom’s sake, vote No on taking innocent lives
Baptist Press
Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared in the Billings Gazette. Rugged individualism and self-reliance are...
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