Founding President of Center for Informed Faith

Dr. Jim Denison pastored Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas for ten years prior to founding the Center for Informed Faith. Previously, he has pastored churches in Midland and Mansfield, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia.

In addition to being the president of the Center for Informed Faith, Denison serves as Theologian in Residence for the Baptist General Convention of Texas. He has taught Ph.D. seminars and graduate level classes for Dallas Baptist University. He has also served as a teaching fellow for the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute, and on its Board of Governors. Dr. Denison has also taught at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Mercer University School of Theology, and has served on the boards of Truett Theological Seminary, Center for Christian Ethics of Baylor University, and DBU.

He has a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Divinity from SWBTS, and a Doctor of Divinity from DBU. Denison is the author of five books:

• Wrestling with God: How Can I Love a God I’m Not Sure I Can Trust?
• The Myth and The Manger
• The Bible--You Can Believe It: Biblical Authority in the Twenty First Century
• Life on the Brick Pile: Answers to Suffering from the Letters of Revelation
• Seven Crucial Questions About the Bible

Dr. Denison has done extensive work in apologetics, philosophy and cultural studies. His weekly Sunday school commentaries are used by the Baptist General Convention of Texas and Baptistway Press as an online teaching tool.

His daily devotional, “GodIssues: Today’s news in spiritual perspective” is made available across the world to more than 14,000 readers. He and his wife, Janet, have two sons.