Baptist historian Robert Handy dies at 90

WEST CALDWELL, N.J. — Robert Handy, who studied under legendary Christian scholars like Paul Tillich before becoming a prominent Baptist historian in his own right, died at a retirement community in West Caldwell, N.J., Jan. 8. He was 90. Handy was a professor of church history at Union Theological Seminary — the ecumenical Protestant graduate school in New York —…