Archive for April 2017

The College at Southwestern has officially been renamed The L.R. Scarborough College at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in honor of the seminary’s second president, L.R. Scarborough. Continuing the school’s original vision from its initial launch in 2005, Scarborough College will lay a foundation on which God-called men and women can build a lifetime of ministry…

FinishSeminary.Today, a new website launched by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will help students “finish what they started.” That is, it will guide them through the process of returning to the seminary in order to finish degree programs that they started but, for one reason or another, never finished. “Every year, there are students who find…

The way that people spend their time, as well as the work they choose to do, can be a way of giving praise to God—yet Christians must examine whether their vocation glorifies God or conflicts with Christ’s teaching, Stephen Presley reminded attendants at Southwestern Seminary’s Land Center luncheon, April 5. The luncheon was a shared…

Southwestern Seminary hosted the annual meeting of the Southwest Region of the Evangelical Theological Society, March 31-April 1. The meeting’s primary feature was a discussion of progressive dispensationalism and progressive covenantalism. The plenary speakers were Craig Blaising, executive vice president and provost at Southwestern, and Stephen Wellum, professor of Christian theology at Southern Seminary and…

As the North American Mission Board (NAMB) works toward its yearly goal of planting 1,200 new churches, the need is great and opportunities are abounding. Chad Childress, senior director of NAMB’s Church Planter Discovery Team, spoke to students during a special luncheon, March 28, as part of Southwestern’s annual North American Church Planting Week. He…