Meet Our Faculty
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
Assistant Professor of Women’s Ministries
Assistant to the President
Managing Editor of Seminary Hill Press
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
Dan R. Crawford
Senior Professor Emeritus of Evangelism and Missions
Joseph R. Crider
Professor of Church Music and Worship
Dean of the School of Church Music and Worship
McKinney Chair of Church Music
Amy L. Crider
Associate Professor of Foundations of Education
Director of the Southwestern Center for Writing and Rhetoric
Daniel Darling
Assistant Professor of Faith and Culture, Texas Baptist College
Director of Land Center for Cultural Engagement
David S. Dockery
Distinguished Professor of Theology
President
Director of the Dockery Center for Global Evangelical Theology
R. Adam Dodd
Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Backgrounds
Vice President for Campus Technology
Director of Tandy Institute of Archaeology
Coleman M. Ford
Assistant Professor of Humanities, Texas Baptist College
W. Madison Grace II
Provost and 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
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
John B. Mann
Associate Professor of Business and Theology,
Assistant to the President for Constituent Relations
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
Distinguished Professor of Missions
Missionary-in-Residence
Jonathan K. Okinaga
Assistant Professor of Biblical Counseling
Hope for the Heart Chair of Biblical Counseling
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 Program Studies Coordinator
Dietmar W. Schulze
Coordinator of Seminary Program, Bonn, Germany Extension
Associate Professor of Missions
N. Chris Shirley
Professor of Educational Ministries
Dean of the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries
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
Chandler M. Snyder
Vice President for Institutional Relations
Instructor of Missions, Roy J. Fish School of Evangelism and Missions
Terri H. Stovall
Professor of Educational Ministries
Interim Associate Dean of the Jack D. Terry School of Educational Ministries
Dean of Women
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
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