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Planned Parenthood protest includes seminary contingent

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Students, faculty and staff from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary bolstered 500 pro-life protesters at Louisville's Planned Parenthood office Aug. 22, part of a nationwide effort in 320 cities to bring public attention to the nation's leading abortion provider in the wake of undercover videos released since July by the Center for Medical Progress. The protest was part of a nationwide effort in 320 cities to bring public attention to the nation's leading abortion provider in the wake of eight undercover videos ...

Mohler receives Meese religious liberty award

WASHINGTON (BP) -- For his "significant efforts in publicly promoting and defending religious liberty," R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received the 2015 Edwin Meese III Originalism and Religious Liberty Award from the Alliance Defending Freedom, May 15. "This award is presented to those who clearly demonstrate through their lives and callings a profound understanding and commitment to defending the original meaning of the United States Constitution and our liberty," said Alan Sears, ....

TRUSTEES: Mohler reports record SBTS enrollment

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's trustees elected two new faculty members and received President R. Albert Mohler Jr.'s report summarizing historic student enrollment metrics during their April 20-21 meeting. In a harmonious meeting on the seminary's campus in Louisville, Ky., trustees unanimously approved all recommendations.

Wisconsin campus gifted to Southern Seminary

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Trustees of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary unanimously accepted the gift of a Christian university campus in Wisconsin as a new extension campus of the seminary and its undergraduate Boyce College during their Oct. 13-14 fall meeting in Louisville, Ky. Trustees also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry, elected three faculty members and adopted responses to referrals from the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Baltimore.

Pro-gay book ‘exceedingly dangerous’

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- A new book's "exceedingly dangerous" assertions that homosexual orientation and gay marriage are consistent with a high view of the Bible are refuted by President R. Albert Mohler Jr. and four of his colleagues at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in an e-book published today (April 22).

Hiring policies updated at Southern Seminary

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- In order to continue to "attract and retain a first-class academic faculty," President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's board of trustees approved updates to faculty employment policies and unified the graduate and undergraduate faculties during its April 14-15 meeting.

Mohler: Religious liberty threat growing

PROVO, Utah (BP) -- Speaking for the second time in less than 100 days at [QUOTE@left@180="We need to stand together on so many urgent concerns."
-- R. Albert Mohler, Jr.]Brigham Young University, Southern Baptist leader R. Albert Mohler Jr. told students and faculty at the school, "We may go to jail sooner even than we thought," recalling his concern about the threat to religious liberty raised in an earlier appearance at the Mormon-owned school.

Scroggins: Broken families lead to ministry

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (BP) -- For many residents, South Florida may very well seem like paradise on earth.

Calvinism: Mohler, Hankins hold ‘conversation’

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Southern Baptists need to "learn the table manners of denominational life" when discussing Calvinism, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said during a "conversation" with Mississippi pastor Eric Hankins at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

2nd VIEW: Calvinism: Mohler, Hankins hold ‘conversation’

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Southern Baptists need to "learn the table manners of denominational life" when discussing Calvinism, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said during a "conversation" with Mississippi pastor Eric Hankins at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Mohler, president of Southern Seminary, and Hankins, pastor of First Baptist Church in Oxford, Miss., co-chaired a 19-member Calvinism Advisory Committee that issued a unanimous report in May to Executive Committee President Frank Page, who assembled the group.