SBTS sees increase in summer missionaries
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s annual Great Commission Week included the commissioning of one its largest groups for summer missions. Chuck Lawless, dean of the seminary’s Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth, reported that 118 students will serve across the globe this summer and a total of 140 students were commissioned […]
‘Mind-numbing’ devastation: Southern team helps in relief
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Pictures are typically worth a thousand words, but the images that the television coverage of Hurricane Katrina produced did not prepare Mary Sills for the destruction she witnessed first-hand in southern Mississippi.
Mohler: Seminaries must nurture faithfulness in a faithless world
INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Southern Baptist seminaries face the great challenge of producing faithful ministers in a faithless world, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said in a report to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis June 16.
Record number of motions proposed at SBC in Indy
INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Messengers proposed a record 29 motions on the opening day of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention encompassing issues as heated as changing the name of the SBC and as innocuous as officially commending a family friendly movie soon to be released by the Walt Disney Company.
Panel: conservative resurgence was about theology, not politics
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Theology, not politics, was the fuel that fired the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention, members of a panel at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said April 13 during a 25th anniversary commemoration of the resurgence.