Ukrainian Church, people resilient in war, Dan Darling says after trip
KYIV, Ukraine (BP) – Ukrainian Christians are resilient in the lingering war with Russia and yet optimistic of “a just peace,” Southern Baptist leader Dan Darling said on the heels of a weeklong tour of Ukraine and Poland.
Iorg encourages SWBTS graduates to stay true to God’s eternal mission
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Jeff Iorg, president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, challenged Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates at their fall commencement Dec. 6 to remain committed to God’s eternal mission of bringing the Gospel to the lost.
FROM THE SEMINARIES: NOBTS Spanish program grows; SWJT announces book awards
NOBTS Spanish program experiences rapid success; SWJT names ‘Mere Christian Hermeneutics’ its 2024 Book of the Year.
SBC DIGEST: Pruitt to share ministry lessons at SWBTS; WMU’s Children’s Missions Day sees successes
Shane Pruitt to co-teach courses at SWBTS; Children make missional impact through Children’s Missions Day.
Dockery tells trustees Southwestern has moved to ‘time of hopefulness’
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has moved “from instability to stability, from a time of crisis and challenge to a time of hopefulness … only because of God’s goodness and grace to this institution,” President David S. Dockery told the board of trustees Oct. 23 in its fall meeting during which […]
Matt Queen pleads guilty to federal charges
NEW YORK CITY – Former seminary professor and North Carolina pastor Matt Queen entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Southern New York Wednesday (Oct. 16). Queen, 49, is pleading guilty to a charge of falsifying documents, according to court records.
SBC DIGEST: Lennon named director of Lifeway women’s ministry; SWBTS launches ‘Equipped the Call’ site
Andrea Lennon joins Lifeway as director of women’s ministry; ‘Equip the Called’ website eases access to Southwestern ministry resources.
Wedgwood 25 years later: SWBTS alumni share memories
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – On Sept. 15, 1999, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary alumnus Jay Fannin (MACE, ’98) was helping at a youth event he had organized at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, where he had been named the youth minister 20 months previously. But that time of prayer and worship that was attended by 14 area church youth groups quickly turned into a tragedy when an armed man walked into the sanctuary and began shooting.
FROM THE SEMINARIES: SWBTS global engagement panel; MBTS Spurgeon preaching workshop
Faculty panel discusses Southwestern’s ‘globally engaged’ core value; MBTS hosts preaching workshop on Gospel focus of Charles Spurgeon.
Greenway responds to follow-up statement from SWBTS
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – The day after a settlement was announced in a dispute between Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and its former president Adam Greenway, Greenway released a statement taking issue with the seminary’s “characterizations of the motivations” behind his overture toward a settlement.
