W.T. “Dub” Edwards Jr., a former religion professor at Samford University in Birmingham and former religion department chair at the university, died April 11. He was 86. Edwards was ordained to the ministry in 1946 at Twelfth Street Baptist Church, Gadsden.  He graduated from Howard College (now Samford) in 1949 and later from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.,…