Archive for June 2023
Southwestern student to appear on America’s Got Talent
In an episode of America’s Got Talent (AGT) airing June 27, Lachune Boyd, a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Master of Music student with a concentration in voice will be featured as one of the people auditioning. Like many talent-based televised competitions, AGT has an open audition portion during which Boyd performed. “You know, let’s just…
Read MoreYarnell serves Southern Baptists on SBC Resolutions Committee
Malcolm B. Yarnell III, research professor of theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, served on the Resolutions Committee during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans, June 13-14, taking a “particular spiritual and theological interest” using his “editorial skills” in two resolutions pertaining to the legacy and responsibility of women fulfilling the Great…
Read MoreRussell H. Dilday Jr., sixth president of Southwestern Seminary, dies
Russell Hooper Dilday Jr., the sixth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died on June 21 in Dallas. He was 92 years old. “Russell Dilday had just come to serve as president of Southwestern Seminary when I came to Southwestern as a student,” recalled David S. Dockery, current president of Southwestern Seminary. “As a student,…
Read MoreCrider elected 2024 SBC annual meeting music director
NEW ORLEANS – Joseph R. Crider, dean of the School of Church Music and Worship at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, was elected music director for the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 14 during the 2023 SBC annual meeting in New Orleans. In addition to Crider, Dean Inserra, lead pastor…
Read MoreDockery harkens to the past, highlights present markers of ‘God’s blessings’ on Southwestern in SBC report
NEW ORLEANS – With a pledge to continue the best of its Baptist and evangelical heritage, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President David S. Dockery harkened to the Fort Worth institution’s “foundational convictions regarding Scripture and the Gospel” in his June 14 report to the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans. Dockery said the institution has…
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