Ligon Duncan

J. Ligon Duncan III is the Senior Minister of the historic First Presbyterian Church, Jackson, Mississippi (1837), and is a past Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Duncan is the President of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, and also the Convener of the Twin Lakes Fellowship, Adjunct Professor of Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Chairman of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and past Secretary of the Board of Belhaven College.

Duncan is a native of Greenville, South Carolina, a graduate of Greenville Senior High School (1979), Furman University (1983 BA History), and Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, (1986 MDiv; 1987 MA Historical Theology), with honors, where he received the J. Oliver Buswell Award for Church History and Systematic Theology. He audited Systematic Theology at the Free Church of Scotland College under Professor Donald Macleod (1988-1990) and earned the PhD (Ecclesiastical History and Systematic Theology) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1995. He served as the John R. Richardson Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, before assuming the pastorate at First Presbyterian Church, Jackson.