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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...

Turkish-Americans yearning for a touch of home can find it in a Norcross office park. In one suite, they can watch an international soccer game on satellite TV, learn to bake baklava or nurse a cup of thick, mild Turkish coffee. Next door, possibly the only Turkish grocery in Georgia beckons with a variety of "konservesi" (canned goods) and traditional candies such as Turkish delight, a sugary confection made with an assortment of nuts. In a cookie-cutter complex off Jimmy Carter and Atlantic boulevards, the Bereket Turkish Grocery Market and the Istanbul Cultural Center are social lifelines for expatriates as...