Dockery encourages community among Southwesterners in convocation address
FORT WORTH, Texas – During the Jan. 21 spring convocation address, David S. Dockery, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, invited Southwesterners to join him in considering what it means to serve and live in community, explaining the importance of the communion of saints and how it impacts the institution.
YEAR IN REVIEW: Southwestern celebrates with gratitude God’s blessings in 2024
FORT WORTH (BP) -- As the end of the 2024 calendar year approaches, the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary community reflects with gratitude on the past 12 months, looks ahead with hope as the state of the institution continues to see improvements and commits to stay true to its six core values, said President David S. Dockery.
Iorg encourages SWBTS graduates to stay true to God’s eternal mission
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Jeff Iorg, president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, challenged Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates at their fall commencement Dec. 6 to remain committed to God’s eternal mission of bringing the Gospel to the lost.
Dockery tells trustees Southwestern has moved to ‘time of hopefulness’
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has moved “from instability to stability, from a time of crisis and challenge to a time of hopefulness … only because of God’s goodness and grace to this institution,” President David S. Dockery told the board of trustees Oct. 23 in its fall meeting during which […]
Wedgwood 25 years later: SWBTS alumni share memories
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – On Sept. 15, 1999, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary alumnus Jay Fannin (MACE, ’98) was helping at a youth event he had organized at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, where he had been named the youth minister 20 months previously. But that time of prayer and worship that was attended by 14 area church youth groups quickly turned into a tragedy when an armed man walked into the sanctuary and began shooting.
Dockery urges conviction, cooperation, collaboration at SWBTS convocation
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – President David S. Dockery called on Southern Baptists and the seminary community to recommit to conviction, cooperation and collaboration as he looked toward the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas next June during the fall convocation service at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Aug. 27.
SWBTS student perseveres despite heart failure
Seminary students can expect to face challenges in pursuing theological education, but heart failure at the age of 24 is not usually one of them.
