Archive for November 2023
A Great Commission and Great Commandment vision for theological education at Southwestern
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of Southwestern News. In 2000, I surrendered to the call to vocational ministry. As a 20-year-old, I did not know exactly what that meant other than I knew God had a plan for me and I wanted to serve Him in and with the…
Read MoreCoach-in-Chief: Distinguished Baptist theologian David S. Dockery leads Southwestern Seminary with the heart of a coach
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of Southwestern News. When David S. Dockery (‘81) describes what his career aspirations were as an eight-year-old boy growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, his entire face lights up. “I always wanted to be a sports journalist,” recalls Dockery, the tenth president of Southwestern Baptist…
Read MoreSánchez leads and inspires future pastors
Serving others and leading future pastors is something Juan Sánchez excels at as an associate professor of theology in the School of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Sánchez has served as senior pastor at High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, Texas, since August 2005 and previously served as the president of the Southern Baptists…
Read More‘Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament’ wins 2023 SWJT Book of the Year award
Edited by G. K. Beale, D. A. Carson, Benjamin L. Gladd, and Andrew David Naselli, Dictionary of the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, was named the 2023 Book of the Year by the Southwestern Journal of Theology in the fourth annual edition of the honors, David S. Dockery, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological…
Read MorePrestonwood Baptist Church, Southwestern Seminary partner to open new Pregnancy Center in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH (Prestonwood) — Today, leaders of Prestonwood Baptist Church and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary announced a partnership to open a new pregnancy center on the seminary campus beginning in the spring of 2024. Prestonwood Pregnancy Center Fort Worth will operate in the former B.H. Carroll Center for Baptist Heritage and Mission located on Townsend…
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