David Porter

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Revising the curriculum and adding to the faculty highlighted Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s semi-annual board of trustees meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 19. Upbeat reports about the school followed moving tributes to the victims of the Sept. 15 shooting at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth. Southwestern is making changes that […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–When a Cuban national baseball team played the Baltimore Orioles May 3 at Camden Yards, it marked the first time a baseball team from the tiny island played on American soil. In a year of firsts between the countries, another group of Cubans will be coming to study in Texas this summer. […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–When God calls men and women to prepare for ministry, oftentimes they do not know how they can afford to quit their jobs and go to seminary. But they do, just as Abraham and Sarah picked up and moved by faith to a new land. Such was the case five years ago […]

In 1908, dynamic changes took place across the American landscape. The growing availability of the automobile proved to be one of the most dynamic. Henry Ford built the first of 15-million Model Ts that year. A popular saying was, "You could have any color you wanted as long as it was black." The same could […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Just as Jesus is pursuing sinners with diligence, ministers cannot be casual about evangelism, the pastor of an influential Texas church told Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary students at a Nov. 17 chapel. Kie Bowman, pastor of Hyde Park Baptist Church, Austin, Texas, lamented that many ministers forget that God actively seeks sinners. […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–The Hispanic community makes up a large segment of the population of the state of Texas. In contrast, Hispanics comprise a much smaller percentage of the population of the Southern Baptist Convention’s seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and of American seminaries as a whole, figures show.Daisy Machado, program director of the Hispanic […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–The “global seminary” of the Southern Baptist Convention is in “one of the most exciting and challenging and pivotal years in the 90-year history of the seminary,” said Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Kenneth S. Hemphill at the seminary’s biannual board of trustees meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 20. Among the […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–With President Kenneth S. Hemphill’s challenge that “we cannot do business as usual” in the 21st century, the faculty of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, voted unanimously to begin changing the design of education at the seminary. After lengthy discussions during a two-day retreat, the faculty of the Southern […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Borrowing from the Old Testament theme of promise and the New Testament theme of fulfillment, President R. Albert Mohler Jr. told trustees of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary the Louisville, Ky., school is enjoying a season blessed by both themes. “We are standing on the shoulders of giants who founded this institution and successive […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–North Carolina pastor Mark A. Howell is joining the faculty of the new James P. Boyce College of the Bible at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, officials of the Louisville, Ky., seminary announced April 6. Howell, who will be assistant professor of preaching and pastoral ministries for the new college, currently is pastor of […]