Fellows of the Research Institute of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission

Founding Fellows

Daniel Akin, Ph.D., President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina

Don Buckley, M.D., Family Physician, Pensacola, Florida

The late L. Russ Bush III, Ph.D., Academic Vice President; Dean of the Faculty Emeritus; Distinguished Professor of Philosophy of Religion; and Director of the Center for Faith and Culture, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina

David Dockery, Ph.D., President and Professor of Christian Studies, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee

Barrett Duke, Ph.D., Vice President for Public Policy and Research, Director of the Research Institute, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Leland House on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.

Timothy George, Th.D., Dean and Professor of Divinity, Doctrine, and History, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama; Executive Editor of Christianity Today

The late Carl F. H. Henry, Th.D., Ph.D., Theologian and Author; Founding Editor of Christianity Today, Watertown, Wisconsin

Richard Land, D.Phil., President, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee

Steve Lemke, Ph.D., Provost and Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans, Louisiana

C. Ben Mitchell, Ph.D., Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee; Editor, Ethics & Medicine: An International Journal of Bioethics; Consultant on Biomedical Ethics and Life Issues, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Ph.D., President and Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky

Paige Patterson, Th.D., President, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas

Fellows

Craig Blaising, Th.D, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Provost, Professor of Theology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002

Douglas K. Blount, Ph.D., Professor of Theological Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas, 2003

Emir Caner, Ph.D., President, Truett-McConnell College, Cleveland, Georgia, 2010

Lamar Cooper, Th.D., Executive Vice President and Provost, Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament, The Criswell College, Dallas, Texas, 2010

William Dembski, Ph.D., Research Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Cultural Engagement, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 2008

David Hankins, Ph.D., Executive Director, Louisiana Baptist Convention, Alexandria, Louisiana, 2008

Daniel R. Heimbach, Ph.D., Professor of Christian Ethics, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina, 2004

Jerry A. Johnson, Ph.D., President, The Criswell College, Dallas, Texas, 2004

Craig Vincent Mitchell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 2005

Russell D. Moore, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Academic Administration, Dean of the School of Theology, Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 2007

Jeffrey B. Riley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ethics, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005

R. Philip Roberts, Ph.D., President, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri, 2003

Shannon Royce, J.D., Government Relations Consultant, Falls Church, Virginia, 2000

Randy Singer, J.D., Adjunct Professor, Regent University School of Law, Legal Advisor, The American Center for Law & Justice, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 2000

Jerry Sutton, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Preaching and Church History, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri, 2001

Gregory Thornbury, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Theology and Missions, Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition, Vice President for Spiritual Life, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 2001

Malcolm Yarnell, D.Phil., Director of the Center for Theological Research, Director of the Oxford Study Program, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, and Editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002