Mark Coppenger is on the Advisory Board and serves as a Contributing Scholar at The Center for Baptist Leadership. He taught in either a full-time or adjunct capacity at Vanderbilt, Wheaton, Elmhurst, TIU, MBTS, and SBTS. After teaching three dozen different courses throughout his career, he retired from SBTS in 2019 as a Professor of Christian Philosophy and Ethics. He’s pastored a “legacy” church in Arkansas, planted a church in Illinois, and served as an interim pastor in Kentucky—...| Center for Baptist Leadership
I’m no “online actor” or “grievance grifter.” I’m just a old pastor watching the SBC I know and love slowly but surely go off the rails.| Center for Baptist Leadership
This is what I preached this past Sunday for the Introduction to my sermon on Luke 23:39-43. September 11, 2001 This week was awful. We’ve seen that great evil is among us. Thursday was September 11, the anniversary of when Muslims flew passenger planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon| Center for Baptist Leadership
Tomorrow, pastors across America will stand before their congregations in the wake of one of the most shocking and tragic political events in recent American history: The cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk before a crowd of 3,000 college students on the campus of Utah Valley University. As every pastor who| Center for Baptist Leadership
Yes, We Did. Because if Fielder Church is Allowed to Play Semantic Games to Skirt our Confessional Commitments, then our Confession is Meaningless.| Center for Baptist Leadership
I applaud President Trump for moving away from taxpayer-funded IVF. But it's time for evangelical Christians to get this issue right.| Center for Baptist Leadership
Trauma-informed counseling paints itself as a safe harbor. But if you look closely, the foundation is not the Word of God| Center for Baptist Leadership
Cultivating courageous, biblical, and uncompromising Baptist leadership to secure institutional revitalization within the SBC.| Center for Baptist Leadership
Three Recent Cases of Hostile Church Takeover Attempts Have One Glaringly Obvious Connection: The Southern Baptist Convention| Center for Baptist Leadership
