Campus Life
Welcome home to Seminary Hill!
Southwestern Seminary staff, faculty, and fellow students are excited to welcome you to the vibrant on-campus community available here in Fort Worth. At SWBTS, you will find numerous opportunities for fellowship, mentorship, and life-on-life discipleship, no matter your age or life stage.
Campus Dining
From handcrafted foods to specialty coffees and smoothies, campus dining has something for everyone. A variety of meal plan options are available for students, staff, and faculty, and the Coffeehouse and Food Hall have been designed to provide space for students to relax, study, and build community.
Chapel
Every year, we host a robust schedule of speakers from a variety of different ministries, universities, churches, and Southern Baptist entities. Held every Tuesday and Thursday at 10am during the fall and spring semesters, SWBTS chapel provides an opportunity for the Southwestern community to worship together as a campus family.
RAC
The Recreation and Aerobics Center (RAC) exists to serve Southwestern by promoting physical and spiritual wellness while increasing community for the glory of God. Southwesterners can take advantage of a variety of offerings and opportunities at the RAC, including weightlifting equipment, a basketball court, a swimming pool, a children’s playground, intramural sports, and more.
Student Life
Student Life exists to engage students with purposeful community, equipping them to be lifelong disciple-makers as they live their calling. Our team does this by offering co-curricular opportunities to put what you are learning in the classroom into practice. We also offer fun and engaging events designed to help you grow in your walks with Christ and to get to know other students. Additionally, we support cultural and professional student organizations to help students connect with each other based on cultural and ministerial interests.
Housing
Campus housing provides comfortable and affordable options for on-campus students and their families. With apartments, houses, and dorms available, there are options for students in every life stage.
Offices
Find the services you’re looking for by visiting our Offices page.
Campus Map
View a map of our campus.
Centers
Our on-campus centers are designed to not only serve the campus community, but also to provide students with opportunities to apply what they’re learning in their classrooms within a ministry context.
The Land Center for Cultural Engagement exists to train the next generation, equip the church, and host important conversations on the intersection of Christianity and culture.
The Women’s Center, located at Horner House, serves as a hub for the spiritual , social, and academic life of all Southwestern women. Whether you are single or married, pursuing PhD or MDiv, a student wife or a staff member, the Women’s Center is for you.
The World Missions Center exists to inform, inspire, equip, network, and engage all Southwesterners in the Great Commission.
Through mission trips, evangelism training, preaching opportunities, strategic partnerships, and more, the Southwestern World Missions Center is dedicated to helping every Southwesterner find their place in God’s global mission. Whether you’re a student, alumnus, faculty or staff member, the WMC is here to equip you for and engage you in the Great Commission.
Providing biblical counseling to Southwestern students and spouses. The Walsh Center for Biblical Counseling is available to provide support and care for students and their spouses. We provide Christ-centered counseling based on the wisdom of Scripture.
Providing quality hospitality, right here on the SWBTS campus.
Experience distinctive hospitality at The Riley Center, located on the 200-acre tranquil campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, just minutes from downtown Fort Worth, historic Stockyards, Sundance Square, the Museum District, AT&T Stadium (Cowboys), Globe Life Park (Rangers), American Airlines Center (Mavericks & Stars), Texas Motor Speedway, Six Flags Over Texas, and DFW Airport.
As we move into the third decade of the twenty-first century, at a time when evangelicalism is searching for renewal and a recovered sense of identity and unity, the Center for Global Evangelical Theology at Southwestern will not only provide serious opportunities for engaged study of evangelical thought, evangelical theologians, and evangelical theological movements, but the Center will seek to provide a growing context for encouraging and strengthening the global evangelical movement, grounded in a commitment to the fully truthful, authoritative, and sufficient Word of God and the transformational power of the gospel message, prayerful that the Lord will use the Center to bring about renewal in both church and society.
The Center for Text-Driven Preaching exists to provide local church pastors with the tools necessary to preach text-driven sermons.
In order to provide local church pastors with the tools necessary to preach text-driven sermons, the Center for Expository Preaching in cooperation with the Riley Center hosts the Text Driven Preaching Conference during the Spring semester. To listen to past conferences, please visit our Conference Audio section on our Media Resources page located here.
For the Fall semester, the Center for Expository Preaching and the Riley Center also host the Advanced Expository Preaching Workshop, which is designed to aid pastors in mastering the techniques of preaching. To listen to past workshops, please visit our Conference Audio section on our Media Resources page located here.
The Southwestern Center for Expository Preaching hosts a website to assist preachers and teachers of God’s Word – www.preachingsource.com. The website includes features such as: homiletical outlines for the preaching units of Scripture, biblical book video overviews, a preaching podcast, preaching journal articles, expository preaching workshops, commentary suggestions, audio sermons, links across the web, sermon illustrations, and a preaching blog.
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