T.C. Pinckney

T.C. PINCKNEY is active in the affairs of the Southern Baptist Convention and is editor of The Baptist Banner newsletter. Mr. Pinckney graduated from the The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, with a BA in English, and from Syracuse University with a MA in International Relations. From January 1959 to June 1964 he taught political science at the Air Force Academy, and later served in Washington, D.C., and Vietnam. In June 1975 he was promoted to Brigadier General. He retired in 1980. An avid hiker/backpacker, he is also a Trustee, Sunday School teacher, music director, and missions director at Good News Baptist Church, Alexandria, VA. Mr. Pinckney and his wife, Clarita, have three married children and 12 grandchildren. T.C. Pinckney and Bruce Shortt were co-sponsors of the Christian Education Resolution submitted for consideration at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, calling for pastors to encourage their flock to remove their children from tax-funded schools and establish private Christian schools in the Sunday School classrooms.