Archive for May 2021

In a May 10 letter to the Southwestern Seminary and Scarborough College community, President Adam W. Greenway provided a coronavirus update, noting an “overall easing of many COVID protocols.” While encouraging “each of you to take whatever steps you feel necessary to keep yourself healthy and safe,” Greenway outlined several changes on the campus with…

On what President Adam W. Greenway called a “high, holy” day, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Scarborough College celebrated 294 certificate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral students during its spring commencement ceremony, May 7, of whom 210 were present. “We come together because we celebrate not just the degrees that have been earned and the diplomas…

When people come to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, even if it’s just to put up drywall, they’re likely to hear the Gospel. One such drywall installer learned this lesson the week of spring graduation, May 6, as in the course of doing his work, Travis Trawick, vice president for Institutional Advancement, felt led by the…

It seems impossible. I remember the evening like it was yesterday. I still remember the white dress Lanese wore that night. How could it have been 40 years already? The graduation speaker for Southwestern Seminary in 1981 was a man whose name I had not previously heard prior to the commencement service. This quiet-spoken gentleman…