Dr. Randy Everist

Teaching since: 2017

Education

• B.S. in Pastoral Theology, Trinity Baptist College
• M.A.R. in Biblical Studies, Liberty University
• M.A. in Philosophy of Religion, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Birmingham

Ministry

• Pastoral Intern, Lighthouse Baptist Church, Sanford, FL, 2009
• Interim Pastor, Ransdell Chapel Baptist Church, Louisburg, NC, 2014
• Teaching Team Member, Life Group class, Providence Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC, 2014–2022

Experience

• Adjunct Faculty, Trinity Baptist College, 2012–
• Adjunct Faculty, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017–2022
• Professor, CCBS, 2017–

Publications

• Reviewer, “Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine (Andrei A. Buckareff and Yujin Nagasawa),” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (Vol. 82, No. 3, 2017).
• Author, “God, Moral Preferability among Worlds, and the Actual World,” Hope’s Reason: A Journal of Apologetics (Vol. 4, No. 1, 2013).
• Presenter, "Modal Panentheism's Problem of Evil: A Surprising Result," presented at the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting in Ft. Worth, TX, on November 17, 2021.
• Presenter, “Molinism, Miracles, and the Laws of Nature,” presented at the Evangelical Theological Society Southwest Regional Meeting in New Orleans, LA, on March 8, 2019.
• Presenter, “How the Divine Interaction Problem Might be Solved: A Causal Powers Ontology and God,” presented at the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, on November 14, 2018.
• Presenter, “How the Divine Interaction Problem Might be Solved: A Causal Powers Ontology and God,” presented at the Philosophy of Religion Work-in-Progress Meeting at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, on October 4, 2018.
• Presenter, “Buckareff, the Pairing Problem, and Theological Realism,” paper presented at the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting in Providence, RI, on November 17, 2017.
• Presenter, “God’s Moral Justification in Creating the Actual World,” paper presented at the International Society of Christian Apologetics’ Annual Meeting in Wake Forest, NC, on April 29, 2011.