Thursday night closes with a panel discussion featuring  participants Greg Thornbury, dean of the School of Christian Studies at Union University; Buddy Gray, pastor of Hunter Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.; Charles Fowler, senior vice president for university relations at Union; Danny Sinquefield, pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Bartlett, Tenn.; Roland Porter, associate professor of business at Union; George Guthrie, the Benjamin W. Perry Professor of Bible at Union; and Doug Baker, editor of the Baptist Messenger of Oklahoma.

The panel took questions from the attendees.  See Trevin Wax for a summary.