Meet Our Faculty
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Completing a seminary degree is a challenging journey, but you will not make it alone. These men and women are committed not only to your academic success, but to your spiritual development and growth as a minister of the Gospel.
What’s more, our professors have years of experience in ministry, as well as in the academy, so you’ll be learning from men and women who’ve served in the very churches, ministries, and mission fields where you’re headed.
Meet the administration of Southwestern Seminary and Texas Baptist College here.
Southwestern Seminary professors are experienced:
- Lead Pastors
- Church Planters
- Worship Ministers
- Evangelists
- Scholars
- Missionaries
- Authors
- Children’s Ministers
- Ethicists
- Teachers
- All
- School of Church Music and Worship
- School of Educational Ministries
- School of Evangelism and Missions
- School of Theology
- Senior/Part-Time Faculty
- Southwestern Women
- Texas Baptist College
Ashley L. Allen
Chief of Staff
Managing Editor for Seminary Hill Press
Associate Professor of Women’s Ministries
Brian Berry
Instructor of Biblical Studies
Texas Baptist College | School of Theology
D. Jeffrey Bingham
Research Professor of Historical Theology
Jesse Hendley Chair of Biblical Theology
Carl J. Bradford
Dean of Texas Baptist College
Associate Professor of Evangelism
Malcolm R. and Melba L. McDow Chair of Evangelism
Felix Cabrera
Assistant Professor of Christian Ministry
Associate Director of Hispanic Programs
Michael L. Copeland
Assistant Professor of Missions
Associate Director of the World Missions Center
Terrell Coy
Director of Language Programs
Associate Professor of Theology
Dan R. Crawford
Senior Professor of Evangelism and Missions
Chair of Prayer & Spiritual Formation Emeritus
Amy L. Crider
Associate Professor of Foundations of Education
Director of the Southwestern Center for Writing and Rhetoric
Joseph R. Crider
Professor of Church Music and Worship
Dean of the School of Church Music and Worship
McKinney Chair of Church Music
Daniel Darling
Assistant Professor of Faith and Culture, Texas Baptist College
Director of Land Center for Cultural Engagement
Heinrich Derksen
Associate Professor of Missions
Coordinator of the Seminary Program, Bonn, Germany Extension
David S. Dockery
Distinguished Professor of Theology
President
Director of the Dockery Center for Global Evangelical Theology
R. Adam Dodd
Executive Vice President for Operations and Administration
Associate Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Background
Director of the Tandy Institute of Archaeology
Coleman M. Ford
Assistant Professor of Humanities, Texas Baptist College
Steven Gilbert
Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies
Associate Director of the Tandy Institute for Archaeology
W. Madison Grace II
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration
Dean of the School of Theology
Professor of Theology
O.S. Hawkins
Senior Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Evangelism
L.R. Scarborough Chair of Evangelism
Armando Hernandez
Instructor in Theology
Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Services
Andrew Jennings
Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Apologetics
Karen P. Kennemur
Professor of Children’s Ministry
Bessie Fleming Chair of Childhood Education
Jeremiah I. Kim
Associate Professor of Theology
Director of Korean D.Min. Program
J. Craig Kubic
Senior Professor of Administration
Interim Director of Libraries
Charles T. Lewis Jr.
Professor of Church Music and Worship
Associate Dean of the School of Church Music and Worship
Stephanie Litton
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Assistant Vice President for Student Services
Matthew F. McKellar
Professor of Preaching
George W. Truett Chair of Ministry
Trey E. Moss
Instructor of New Testament
Associate Vice President for Academic Administration
Rebekah Ann Naylor
Senior Distinguished Professor of Missions
Missionary-in-Residence
Jonathan K. Okinaga
Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling
Hope for the Heart Chair of Biblical Counseling
Chris S. Osborne
Professor of Preaching and Pastoral Ministry
James T. Draper Chair of Pastoral Ministry
Lilly H. Park
Associate Professor of Biblical Counseling
The Hultgren Chair of Ministerial Counseling
Shane W. Parker
Affiliate Professor of Leadership and Educational Ministries
Kevin W. Rodgers
Professor of Missions
Intercultural Studies Program Coordinator
Dietmar W. Schulze
Coordinator of Seminary Program, Bonn, Germany Extension
Associate Professor of Missions
Chris Shirley
Professor of Educational Ministries
Dean of the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries
Dean of Faculty
Jack D. and Barbara Terry Chair of Religious Education
Dean F. Sieberhagen
Dean of the Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions
Professor of Missions
Charles F. Stanley Chair for the Advancement of Global Christianity
Mark E. Taylor
Professor of New Testament
Associate Dean of the School of Theology
Jack D. Terry
Senior Professor of Foundations of Education
Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Advancement
Travis H. Trawick
Assistant Professor of Theology
Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Strategy
Michael D. Wilkinson
Professor of Theology
Director of Professional Doctoral Studies
Joshua E. Williams
Professor of Old Testament
Director of Research Doctoral Studies
W. Michael Wilson
Senior Professor of Pastoral and Applied Ministry
Director of Applied Ministry
Hongyi Yang
Associate Professor of World Christianity
Director of Chinese Language Programs
J. Stephen Yuille
Professor of Church History and Spiritual Formation