An Open Letter to Southern Baptists

Dear fellow Baptists: August of 1928, a sad month for Southern Baptists, was the date when it was discovered that Clinton S. Carnes, trusted treasurer of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, had quietly pilfered $909,161 from the treasury of the Home Mission Board. Southern Baptists were humiliated; the Home Mission Board was…

Read More

Apologetics conference provides principles for answering any worldview

With multiple worldviews populating modern society, how do Christians engage the culture? In answer to this question, during Southwestern Seminary’s annual Stand Firm Apologetics Conference, March 23-24, author and apologetics professor Nancy Pearcey outlined some of the principles necessary for answering any worldview. Speaking during one the conference’s plenary sessions, Pearcey, who teaches at Houston…

Read More

Annual ‘Revive This Nation’ effort yields countrywide harvest

Each year during spring break, Southwestern Seminary deploys preachers across the country to preach revivals in local churches and impact their surrounding communities with the Gospel through a program called “Revive This Nation” (RTN). This year, March 11-14, 87 students and faculty preached from New York to Hawaii, and they collectively saw 90 professions of…

Read More

Harvest North America partnership propels personal evangelism efforts

This year, during Southwestern Seminary’s annual “Revive This Nation” evangelism program, March 11-14, numerous churches across the country benefitted from a partnership between Southwestern and Harvest North America (HNA). HNA is an evangelistic ministry that partners with local churches, equips them to share their personal testimonies in face-to-face evangelism, and prepares them for revival. Thanks…

Read More