Archive for December 2023
Mann uses pastoral experience at Southwestern to mentor students
Mentoring students is something that many professors feel is a priority when attempting to influence students. John Mann, associate professor of theology and business at Texas Baptist College (TBC), feels that same conviction to mentor students as he was once mentored. Born to a family in the oilfield business, Mann moved around Texas until his…
Read MoreSouthwestern students, faculty use experience in evangelism, biblical counseling during Japan mission trip
Japan is one of the most unreached countries in the world when it comes to the Gospel being spread there. With this fact in mind, 18 students and one faculty member from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary took part in a mission trip to Nagoya, Japan, to both share the Gospel and lead a biblical counseling…
Read MoreNext-Gen ministry: How Doug Bischoff pioneered helping Houston’s First be a ‘better partner for parents’
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of Southwestern News. In most churches today, children’s ministry and youth ministry have little to do with each other outside of sharing a building. At Houston’s First Baptist Church, however, Southwesterner Doug Bischoff has pioneered ministry that seeks to make “church a better partner for…
Read MorePrayer sought as campus space and property utilization task team begins work
President David S. Dockery is requesting prayer for a task team as it begins its work evaluating Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary campus property and space utilization as an extension of the institution’s Advance Southwestern 2030 institutional plan adopted by the board of trustees in April. “The Institutional Task Team on Space and Property Utilization is…
Read MoreServing churches through theological education
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2023 issue of Southwestern News. It was an unexpected question. I don’t know that I had even considered it. I was near the end of my Master of Divinity degree and was waiting to speak to a professor who had encouraged me to pursue a doctoral degree.…
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