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From: Dr. Jerry Falwell Date: July 25, 2006 Dr. Ergun Caner at TRBC this Sunday, July 30, 11:00 a.m. This Sunday, July 30, Dr. Ergun Caner, a former Muslim who is today the president of Liberty Theological Seminary, will be speaking in the beautiful new Thomas Road Baptist Church Worship Center. Dr. Caner, who has been described as the “Intellectual Pit Bull of the evangelical world,” will be addressing the present turbulence in the Middle East and examining the historic connotations of the Covenant between God and Abraham, a key issue in today’s ongoing turmoil in the Holy Land. Dr....

LYNCHBURG, Va. - The new dean of the theological seminary at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University is a former Sunni Muslim known among students for pop culture references that lighten lectures, and for cracking one-liners as easily as he quotes a Bible verse. But among major Muslim and Arab-American groups, Ergun Mehmet Caner is viewed as insensitive and hostile -- someone who has damaged relations between Christianity and Islam in this country. "There is a new generation of new evangelists who are provocative, cultural and yet conservative. We will sit in the back of the bus no more," Caner...

LYNCHBURG, Va. - The new dean of the theological seminary at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University is a former Sunni Muslim known among students for pop culture references that lighten lectures, and for cracking one-liners as easily as he quotes a Bible verse. But, among major Muslim and Arab-American groups, Ergun Mehmet Caner is viewed as insensitive and hostile - someone who has damaged relations between Christianity and Islam in this country. "There is a new generation of new evangelists who are provocative, cultural and yet conservative - we will sit in the back of the bus no more,"...

The new dean of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University theological seminary is a former Sunni Muslim who plans to turn out a hipper generation of graduates by relating to them with lyrics from rapper 50 Cent, TV's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and the latest movies and film stars. Ergun Mehmet Caner cracks one-liners as easily as he quotes a Bible verse. Lecturing to a packed auditorium of 450 students, Mr. Caner mixed religion with jokes to keep his students on their toes in a late afternoon theology class. He asked his students which popular actors they would...

First Former Muslim to Become Dean of an Evangelical Seminary in the U.S. Liberty University announces Dr. Ergun Caner as the new Dean of the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. Caner fills the post vacated by Dr. Danny Lovett who leaves to assume the presidency of Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga. Caner, the first former Muslim to become the dean of an evangelical seminary in the United States, has spent two years at Liberty University teaching Theology and Church History in the School of Religion. A very popular professor, Caner energizes his listeners through both his humor and direct preaching. “We...

On February 4, to the surprise of thousands of Liberty University students, I arose in a convocation service to announce that Dr. Ergun Caner, a converted Sunni Muslim and son of an ulema (Muslim scholar), was to be the first former Muslim to become the dean of an evangelical seminary in the United States. In fact, he will become dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary on the campus of Liberty University, the school I founded in 1971. The announcement came on the heels of Dr. Danny Lovett, present dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, announcing that he was accepting the...