Dr. Voddie Baucham Jr.

Voddie Baucham wore many hats: husband, father, grandfather, former pastor, best-selling author, professor, conference speaker, and church planter. He was also a founding faculty member of the Institute of Public Theology and Founders Seminary. He was also Founding Dean of the School of Divinity at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia.

Voddie made the Bible clear, demonstrating the relevance of God’s Word to everyday life without compromising the centrality of Christ and the gospel. Those who heard him preach were both challenged and encouraged.

Voddie emphasized cultural apologetics. Whether teaching on classical apologetic issues like the validity and historicity of the Bible, the resurrection of Christ, or teaching on biblical manhood/womanhood or marriage and family, he helped ordinary people understand the significance of thinking and living biblically in every area of life.

It is impossible to understand Voddie’s approach to the Bible without first understanding the path he walked. Raised in a non-Christian, single-parent home, Voddie did not hear the gospel until he was in college. His journey to faith was a very unusual and intellectual one. Consequently, he understood what it meant to be a skeptic and knew what it’s like to try to figure out the Christian life without relying on the traditions of men. As a result, he spoke to “outsiders” in ways few Bible teachers can.

Dr. Baucham held degrees from Houston Baptist University (BA in Christianity/BA in Sociology), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MDiv), Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (DMin), an honorary degree from Southern California Seminary (DD), and additional postgraduate study at the University of Oxford, England (Regent’s Park College).

Voddie and his wife, Bridget, were married in 1989. They have nine children: Jasmine, Trey (Voddie, III), Elijah, Asher, Judah, Micah, Safya, Amos, and Simeon.

Latest Articles by Dr. Voddie Baucham Jr.

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  Life’s Toughest Questions

  July 24, 2011 from Answers Magazine

  A number of Christians, along with their worldly counterparts, seem more than happy to live with cognitive dissonance.

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