An accomplished editor, he presently serves as a consulting editor for Christianity Today and as associate general editor for Broadman Press' 40-volume New American Commentary series. An ordained minister, Dockery has served as associate pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, as pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York, and as interim pastor of several churches in Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky. Carl F.H. Henry , founding editor of Christianity Today and one of the nations's premier evangelical leaders, commended Dockery's leadership in both Christian higher education and the broader evangelical world. As a teacher and an administrator, as a preacher and a writer, David Dockery has held high the flag of evangelical Christianity. His leadership of Union University should signal good things for one of the South's time-honored institutions.
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