IACE 7th Annual Conference
RILEY CONFERENCE CENTER | FORT WORTH, TEXAS | January 27-30, 2026
TuesDAY, January 27
3:00 p.m. – Registration
4:00 p.m. – Afternoon Session: Pre-Conference
5:15 p.m. – Dinner
6:15 p.m. – Evening Session
WednesDAY, January 28
9:00 a.m. – Morning Session
11:30 a.m. – Lunch
1:30 p.m. – Workshops
2:00 p.m. – IACE Board Meeting
5:00 p.m. – Dinner
6:00 p.m. – Evening Session
7:45 p.m. – Adjourn
Thursday, January 29
8:30 a.m. – Devotion
8:45 a.m. – First Morning Address
9:40 a.m. – Second Morning Address
10:40 a.m. – Break
11:00 a.m. – Third Morning Address (MacGorman Chapel)
12:15 p.m. – Lunch
1:45 p.m. – Afternoon Session: Panel Discussion – K – 12 Christian Education
3:00 p.m. – Break
3:30 p.m. – Afternoon Address
4:40 p.m. – Break
5:00 p.m. – Dinner
6:00 p.m. – Evening Address
7:30 p.m. – Adjourn
Friday, January 30
8:30 a.m. – Devotion
8:40 a.m. – Legal Update
9:30 a.m. – Break
10:00 a.m. – Morning Address
11:00 a.m. – Adjourn
Confirmed Speakers for the 2026 7th Annual IACE Conference
Preconference
Developments in Evangelicalism: 1976-2026
Who are Evangelicals?
What Do They Believe?
How Have They Changed?
Nathan Finn, North Greenville University
Gregg Allison, Southern Seminary
Malcolm Yarnell, Southwestern Seminary
Workshops
Clark Higher Ed
Timothy Group
Paul Kaak, Theometrics
Conference Presenters
Josh Moody (Senior Pastor, College Church, Wheaton, IL) - “Unframed” (a conversation to help rising generations realize the inherent credibility of the biblical faith, designed to help those who are confused by the misrepresentation of the Christian faith and by public accounts of the deconstruction of one's faith in our contemporary culture world)
Robert Sloan (President, Houston Christian University) - “Perspectives on Evangelicalism and Christian Higher Education”
Eric Patterson and Jennifer Marshall Patterson - “Thinking Theologically about Religious Freedom: A Case Study for Christian Education”
Greg Baylor (Alliance Defending Freedom) - Legal and Cultural Challenges
Perry Glanzer (Baylor University; Editor-in-Chief, Christian Scholars Review) - “Faithfulness in Christian Higher Education”
Jesse Rine (Center for Educational Faithfulness and Flourishing) - “A Statistical Look at Christian Higher Education”
K-12 Panel - Larry Taylor, Tom Stoner, and others
TG Three - Leadership in Christian Education
IACE and IACE video project update - David S. Dockery
IACE service award presentations
Sponsors
Impact 360
GuideStone
Clark Higher Education
Center for Academic Faithfulness & Flourishing
B&H Publishers
Crossway Publishers
Thomas Nelson Bible Publishers
Southwestern Seminary Center for Global Evangelical Theology
The Timothy Group
TG Three
TheoMetrics
The Progressus Companies
NAACAP
Made to Flourish
NXTPG
Lifeline Children's Services