Jason Hall

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary has announced the addition of a large collection of papers and correspondence of the late Francis A. Schaeffer, one of evangelical Christianity's most prominent 20th-century voices.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Trustees of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary elected four professors, added a degree program and approved a 2.7 percent budget increase at their spring meeting April 12-13. Elected to the faculty were Nathan Finn, assistant professor of church history and Baptist studies; Ed Gravely, assistant professor of biblical studies and history of ideas; […]

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and its undergraduate school, The College at Southeastern, granted degrees to 116 students during fall graduation ceremonies Dec. 18. Ninety-eight graduates received their master’s or doctoral degrees, and 18 graduated with associate or bachelor’s degrees. The graduates came from 18 states and three foreign countries. The charge to […]

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–News of an increase in enrollment was reported to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary’s trustees during their fall meeting at the Wake Forest, N.C., campus. The 653 new students who began classes this semester comprise the second highest new class in the seminary’s history and a 25 percent increase over last fall’s new […]

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Trustees of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary have approved a budget that will not raise tuition for students next year and will not call for any job eliminations on campus. “As we worked on this budget, our chief priorities were to keep costs down for our students and to retain all of our […]

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–The lordship of Christ and the centrality of the Gospel in Christian ministry must be the foundation of a Great Commission resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention, Daniel Akin declared April 16 in a chapel message at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. Akin, the seminary’s president, has been spearheading […]

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Trustees of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary approved changes to the seminary’s associate of divinity program during their Oct. 13-14 meeting at the Wake Forest, N.C., campus. The changes enhance the A.Div. program for individuals who are over 30 and called to the pastorate but do not have the undergraduate education necessary to […]

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees approved key changes to the seminary’s undergraduate school during their April 14-15 meeting in Wake Forest, N.C. The changes include new majors expressly focused on missions and pastoral ministry as well as a new name for the college. In its flagship degree program, the bachelor of arts, […]

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)–Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees unanimously approved plans for the second phase of the seminary’s decade-long fundraising campaign, with a stated goal of $17 million, during their April 14-15 meeting in Wake Forest, N.C. Projects to be funded through the campaign include renovations of Southeastern’s library, scholarships for undergraduate students, endowed faculty […]

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP)–Daniel Akin called on Southern Baptists to rally around a “Great Commission Resurgence” to reach the lost that he hopes will define the denomination’s direction for years and decades to come. “Building on the ‘Conservative Resurgence’ that was initiated in 1979, we believe the time has come for us to focus on the […]