Southern sends out 4th-generation graduate
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- The old maxim "like father, like son" possesses a core truth: Sons tend to resemble their fathers on some detectable level, whether it is their appearance, behavior or vocation.
Sloan: leadership is given, not obtained
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Leadership is not obtained but given, Robert B. Sloan Jr. told his audience at the inaugural address of the Duke K. McCall Lectures on Christian Leadership series at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Taking place on the 60th anniversary of McCall’s election as Southern’s seventh president, Sloan’s lecture is the first in a series […]
SBTS: Panel ponders ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Published in 1985, Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business” bemoaned the effects of television on the American mind, particularly with respect to what the invention did to popular culture’s esteem of the printed word. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary held a panel discussion in recognition of […]
Panel: Prop 8 deliberations impact society
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Court deliberations over the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 carry remarkable weight in the culture. The question is, "How should the church respond?"
