IACE 7th Annual Conference

RILEY CONFERENCE CENTER | FORT WORTH, TEXAS | January 27-30, 2026

*Tentative Schedule

TuesDAY, January 27

Preconference on the theme of “Developments in Evangelicalism: 1976-2026 – Fifty Years on the Other Side of Recognizing 1976 as “The Year of the Evangelical”

3:00 p.m. – Registration

4:00 p.m. – Afternoon Session:
Welcome and Prayer
Nathan Finn, Executive Director, Institute for Faith and Culture, North Greenville University, “Carl F. H. Henry, Biblical Inerrancy, and Evangelical Identity”

5:15 p.m. – Dinner

6:15 p.m. – Evening Session:
Malcolm B. Yarnell III, Research Professor, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, “Evangelicalism: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”

WednesDAY, January 28

9:00 a.m. – Morning Session (Part One):
Gregg Allison, Professor of Christian Theology, Southern Seminary, “The Bible and Evangelicalism”

9:55 a.m.  - Break

10:15 a.m. – Morning Session (Part Two):
Robert B. Sloan, President, Houston Christian University, “Evangelicalism and Christian Higher Education”

11:30 a.m. – Lunch

1:30 p.m. – Workshops (Clark Higher Ed; The Timothy Group; Paul Kaak and Theometics)

2:00 p.m. – IACE Board Meeting

5:00 p.m. – Dinner

6:00 p.m. – Evening Session:
Welcome
Scripture and Prayer
Praise and Worship
Affirmation of Faith: The Nicene Creed
Address: Perry Glanzer, Editor-in-Chief, Christian Scholar’s Review, “Faithfulness in Christian Higher Education”

7:45 p.m. – Adjourn

Thursday, January 29

8:30 a.m. – Devotion

8:45 a.m. – First Morning Address:
P. Jesse Rine, Executive Director, Center for Academic Faithfulness and Flourishing, “Making the Case for Authentically Christian Higher Education”

9:40 a.m. – Second Morning Address:
Eric Patterson, President, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and Jennifer Marshall Patterson, Executive Director, Institute for Theology and Public Policy, “Thinking Theologically about Religious Freedom: A Case Study for Christian Education”

10:40 a.m. – Break

11:00 a.m. – Third Morning Address (MacGorman Chapel):
Josh Moody, Senior Pastor, College Church of Wheaton, Illinois, “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)

 12:15 p.m. – Lunch (A Time for IACE Updates and Recognitions)

 1:45 p.m. – Afternoon Session:
Panel Discussion – K – 12 Christian Education on “Faithfulness in K-12 Christian Education” with Larry Taylor, President, Association of Christian Schools International; Tom Stoner, Head of School, Covenant Classical School, Naperville, IL; and others

3:00 p.m. – Break

3:30 p.m. – Afternoon Address:
Hannah Stolze, Crenshaw Chair of Supply Chain Management, Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University, “Wisdom and Key Performance Indicators: Measuring What Matters”

4:40 p.m. – Break

5:00 p.m. – Dinner

6:00 p.m. – Evening Address:
Michael Graham, Program Director, The Keller Center for Christian Apologetics, “Artificial Intelligence: Trends and Issues”

7:30 p.m. – Adjourn

8:30 a.m. – Devotion

8:40 a.m. – Legal Update:
Greg Baylor, Senior Counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom, “Legal and Cultural Updates”

9:30 a.m. – Break

10:00 a.m. – Morning Address:
TG Three (Ryan Westervelt, Ryan Dougherty, and Nick Willis), “Builder, Fixer, Optimizer: Leadership in Christian Higher Education”

11:00 a.m. – Adjourn

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