According to The Christian Index, a Georgia Baptist newspaper, a small college in North Georgia has become the first Southern Baptist educational institution to choose a former Muslim as president.
Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga., elected Emir Caner, the founding dean of The College at Southwestern in Fort Worth, Texas, as its eighth president on Aug. 8. The school’s announcement notes that Caner’s brother, Ergun, was chosen as the first former Muslim to lead a seminary, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Va.
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