
Mark Coppenger Professor of Christian Apologetics (2004)
E-mail: mcoppenger@sbts.edu Education:
In addition to teaching at Southern Seminary, Dr. Coppenger is pastor of Evanston (IL) Baptist Church, BCM director of Northwestern University, and managing editor of the online Kairos Journal. Before attending seminary, he taught at Wheaton and Vanderbilt, where he directed a project for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has authored, edited, or contributed to books by Broadman & Holman, Prentice-Hall, Baker, Crossway, Hannibal, Word, and Eerdmans. His articles and reviews have appeared in Teaching Philosophy, Touchstone, American Spectator, Criswell Review, Reformation and Revival, USA Today, and Christian Scholar’s Review. Dr. Coppenger has served as pastor of First Baptist Church, El Dorado, Arkansas; executive director of the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana; chairman of the SBC Resolutions Committee; president of Midwestern Seminary; and short-term mission volunteer to Brazil, Russia, Romania, Belgium, Egypt, and Sudan. He is a retired, infantry officer.
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