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

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, 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., Director, The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity; Associate Professor of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois; 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, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002

Douglas K. Blount, Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Ethics and Philosophical Studies; Editor of the Southwestern Journal of Theology; and Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 2003

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, Associate Professor of Christian Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 2007

Jeffrey B. Riley, Ph.D., Assistant 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., Executive Director, The Arlington Group; Legislative Consultant, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Leland House on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., 2000

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

Jerry Sutton, Ph.D., Senior Pastor, Two Rivers Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, 2001

Gregory Thornbury, Ph.D., Dean of the School of Christian Ethics; Associate Professor of Christian Studies; and Director of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Christian Leadership, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 2001

Malcolm Yarnell, D.Phil., Director of the Center for Theological Research; Assistant Dean for Theological Studies; Director of the Oxford Program; and Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 2002