Ex-Muslim Appointed New President of Baptist College
A former Sunni Muslim has been elected as the new president of Truett-McConnell College in Georgia.
Dr. Emir Caner, who was the founding dean of the College at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, was voted by Truett-McConnell’s board of trustees to become its eighth president on Aug. 8, according to the Cleveland, Ga.-based college.
His new appointment makes him the first former Muslim to be elected as president of a Southern Baptist college or university.