Matt Sanders

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–A Texas rancher and the son of a president have been awarded the highest honor given by the school they and their families love so much. Kelly Dan and Marianne Williams of La Porte, Texas, and Winnie Mae Bell of Laredo, Texas, received the B.H. Carroll Award from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary […]

DALLAS (BP)–He used to “play the preacher” after church for his brothers and sister. “Back then the preacher would really preach and sweat and throw his hands up in the air and spin around and everybody [would] shout and just have a great time,” said Roosevelt Broach, who recalled hollering to get the right sound […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–In a move that “sends a signal,” trustees at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary elected a new dean for the seminary’s school of theology March 7 during their biannual meeting. David Crutchley, an associate professor of New Testament at the Fort Worth, Texas, seminary, was named the ninth dean of the seminary’s school […]

SUGAR HILL, Ga. (BP)–He once drew for a living in a studio. Now he draws for Jesus onstage. Most people want to see an artist’s finished work, not the work in progress, but add Christian rock music, lights, slides, Scripture narration and drama, and suddenly you have “Drawing to the Rock,” a gospel presentation that […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--A president, a dean and three who have been called martyrs. Some after a lifetime of ministry. Some in the midst of it. Some only at the beginning. 153 in all. Each for a moment remembered by family, friends, colleagues and the generation of Christian men and women who have been called to stand in the gap.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Nearly 300 Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates were reminded by seminary President Kenneth S. Hemphill of the reasons they are co-laborers with God responsible for giving their best in service to him. “Concentrate for just a moment on the idea that the sovereign God of the universe has chosen to work his […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Nearly 400 years ago, the words were printed on its pages. Two-hundred years ago, Susannah Westlye willed it to a woman and her son. Fifty years ago, a U.S. serviceman bought it from a bookstore owner in England. This year, the serviceman sold it to a Southern Baptist pastor in Florida. Now, […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–The most racially segregated hour of the week is 11 a.m. on Sunday, representative of a barrier Christians must overcome to reach the world for Christ, said Mac Brunson, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, in chapel at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. “Are we willing to step over this barrier of race […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–The Goldia and Robert Naylor Children’s Center at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has been accredited by the nation’s oldest and largest organization of early childhood educators and received three commendations from the group. “This accreditation is the culmination of the dream of Jeroline Baker and Hazel Morris [former children’s center directors] who […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–The world is desperately in need of people of courage who are willing to become veterans in the war against institutionalized evil, said Robert Seiple, U.S. ambassador at large for International Religious Freedom, at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Nov. 10. The world needs “people who will go beyond duty, people who will […]