Paul W Powell

Reverend Paul W. Powell is the retired Dean of Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary. He earned a B.A. from Baylor in 1956 and holds a degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has received honorary degrees from Baylor, East Texas Baptist University, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Campbell University and Dallas Baptist University. The former president of the Robert M. Rogers Foundation of Dallas, Rev. Powell continues to serve on the foundation's board of directors. He retired in 1998 as president and chief executive officer of the Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and has served in numerous offices with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, including a term as president from 1985–87. In 1985-87, when Paul Powell was president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, he challenged Paige Patterson to allow him to review the "Heresy File", to which Patterson referred constantly. Powell found a list of eight men in the "Heresy File". Three were retired, leaving only five active in their work.