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Professor Emeritus of Christian Studies

Dates of Service: 1965–1992

Education

• B.S., University of Southern Mississippi
• B.D., Th.D., and Th.M. (Honors), New Orleans Theological Seminary

Stories

• (June 2015)

Dr. Irby was graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1951 while serving as pastor of the Brooklyn Baptist Church. During his pastorate of the Crosby Baptist Church and the Calvary Baptist Church, Slidell, Louisiana, David attended the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

In 1960 David became pastor of the Hollywood Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee. During his time in Memphis, he received the Doctor of Theology degree from NOBTS. Dr. Irby began teaching for Union at the University of Memphis in 1965. This led to his becoming Dean of Students at Union University. During his twenty-seven years at Union, Dr. Irby served as professor, Dean of Religious Affairs, and the Chairman of the Religions Department. In 1983-84 he received the Faculty of the Year Award and the Distinguished Faculty-Staff Award. He retired from Union in 1992.

Chancellor Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Christian Studies

Dates of Service: 1957–1996

Education

• A.B., Mississippi College
• B.D. and Th.D., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

Stories

• The Teacher President (Spring 2022 Unionite article)
• Famous Last Words (Summer 1996 Unionite article)
• Union dedicates new Barefoot's Joe coffee shop (March 2008)
• (April 1996 TN House Joint Resolution)

Associate Dean of the School of Theology and Missions and University Professor Emeritus of Theological Studies

Dates of Service: 1999–2017

Education

• B.A., Rutgers University
• M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
• Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary

Stories

• Patterson gives inaugural Dockery Lectures on Baptist Thought and Heritage (Spring 2017 Unionite article)
• At Founders' Day chapel, Patterson examines Graves' influence (October 2009)
• Patterson, Finn explore past, future of Baptists (October 2009)

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University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

Dates of Service: 1991–2023

Education

• B.A., Howard Payne University
• M.Div. and Ph.D., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• D. Phil., University of Oxford

Stories

• Bush dedicates hymn to Dockery (April 2006)
• Gabriel's Magic Ornament: Union professor authors children's book (April 2002)

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University Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies

Dates of Service: 1991–2024

Education

• B.A., Samford University
• M.Div., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
• Ph.D, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
• Additional Study, Jerusalem University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Stories

• (February 2021 Cardinal & Cream article)
• Union awards faculty and staff member of year (May 2004)

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R. Kelvin Moore taught Old Testament Survey, New Testament Survey, Hebrew Grammar, and a variety of Old Testament classes at Union University starting in 1991. Prior to that, he pastored churches in Alabama (First Baptist Church, Detroit), Louisiana (First Baptist Church, Welsh) and West Virginia (Good Shepherd Southern Baptist Church, Scott Depot). He has published numerous articles, sermons, Bible Study materials and three books. In addition to his Union responsibilities, he pastored Idlewild Baptist Church, Idlewild, Tennessee, 1996-2016. Kelvin has almost forty years of pastoral experience.

From 2002-2018, Kelvin served as a member of the Bradford Special School District Board of Education, serving as Vice-Chairperson and Chairman of the Board. He also chaired the District's Budget Committee. Kelvin served the public schools of Northwest Tennessee as Director of the Northwest District. He also served the public schools of the state of Tennessee as a member of the Board of Directors.

Union recognized Kelvin's outstanding contributions to the university by awarding him the Faculty Member of the Year in 2004.

Charles Colson University Professor Emeritus of Faith and Culture

Dates of Service: 1996–2024

Education

• B.A., University of South Carolina
• M.Div. and Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Additional study, University of Oxford

Stories

• Poe publishes final book of extensive C.S. Lewis trilogy (October 2022)
• (March 2015 Cardinal & Cream article)
• Poe wins Edgar Award for new biography of Edgar Allan Poe (June 2009)
• The Influence of Faith: Dr. Hal Poe (Fall 2000 Unionite article)
• Hal Poe Named Dean of Information Services At Union University (May 1996)

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Harry Lee (Hal) Poe served as Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Prior to accepting the Colson Chair, he served as vice president at Union and held earlier teaching and administrative posts at Bethel Theological Seminary in St. Paul, 海角乱伦社区 and on two occasions at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Before teaching, Poe served in the Department of Evangelism of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, as pastor of the Simpsonville Baptist Church (KY), and as a prison chaplain at the Kentucky State Reformatory.

Dr. Poe taught, lectured, and wrote about how the gospel answers the deep questions of every culture. He has published over 300 articles and reviews, twenty books, and twenty-five chapters in edited volumes. His books include The Gospel and Its Meaning (Zondervan, 1996), The Inklings of Oxford (Zondervan, 2009), What God Knows (Baylor, 2005), See No Evil: The Existence of Sin in an Age of Relativism (Kregel, 2004), Christianity in the Academy: Teaching at the Intersection of Faith and Learning (Baker Academic, 2004), Christian Witness in a Postmodern World (Abingdon, 2001), The Fruit of Christ's Presence (Broadman, 1990), and four books on science and religion with Jimmy H. Davis: Chance or Dance (Templeton, 2008), Designer Universe (Broadman & Holman, 2002) which won a Christianity Today book of the year Merit Award, Science and Faith (Broadman & Holman, 2000) and God and the Cosmos: How God Relates to the Physical World (InterVarsity, 2012). He is co-editor with his daughter Rebecca of The Good, the True, and the Beautiful: Meditations (Chalice, 2008) and C. S. Lewis Remembered (Zondervan, 2006) a book of recollections by the former students of Lewis. His other books on Lewis include the lavishly illustrated The Inklings of Oxford (Zondervan, 2009) with photography by Jim Veneman and a three-volume biography published by Crossway 芒鈧�鈥� Becoming C. S. Lewis (2019), The Making of C. S. Lewis (2021), and The Completion of C. S. Lewis (2022). The first two volumes were named Finalists for the Christian Book Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He has also written on the spiritual journey and conversion of Edgar Allan Poe in Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories (Barnes & Noble, 2008) which won the Edgar Award in 2009, and Evermore: Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery of the Universe (Baylor, 2012). In Total Commitment (Amazon, 2016), Poe tells the story of his call to ministry when he served as Finance Director of the South Carolina Republican Party in 1974. His creative work includes the novel The Romanov File: 1918-1953 and thirty published poems.

Dr. Poe has served on several boards, including the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation and Museum of Richmond, VA of which he was president for ten years, the American Scientific Affiliation of which he served as president, and the Christian Scholar's Review. He also served with the Jackson Symphony of Jackson, TN (President), The Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education (President), and the C. S. Lewis Foundation of Redlands, CA and Oxford, England with which he also worked as program director for the triennial C. S. Lewis Summer Institute in Oxford and Cambridge. He is the founder of the Inklings Fellowship and directs its annual Christianity in the Academy Conference and Inklings Weekend in Montreat, as well as its triennial Inklings Week in Oxford.