BJC = [Jmd.Sup.2]: The Contributions of Joseph M. Dawson and James M. Dunn to the Baptist Joint Committee: Like the Old Campbell's Soup Television Jingle About "Soup and Sandwich," Joseph M. Dawson and James M. Dunn "Go Together." (Viewpoint Essay‪)‬

Both of their portraits hang on the same wall in the Baptist Joint Committee (BJC) conference room in Washington, D.C., as if to continue their watching over the work of the agency that they both headed. Dawson was the first executive director of what was then the Joint Conference Committee on Public Relations (1946-1953). Dunn was the executive director in 1981-1999. Both were born and bred in Texas, both have the same initials, and both will be remembered by history as fierce champions of religious liberty and church-state separation. Dawson and Dunn profoundly shaped Baptist social ethics throughout the twentieth century. Dawson was twenty-one years old at the turn of that century, and Dunn "retired" at the end of it. While their legacies continue to influence Baptist and American life, from the Brazos to the Potomac and beyond, the focus of this article is on their understanding of the proper relationship between church and state and religion and politics, in the context of their BJC leadership.