Archive for June 2025
TBC announces Foundations of Faith scholarship recipients
Texas Baptist College (TBC) announced Morgan Breeden, Keeton Charbonneau, and Tucker Sloan as this year’s recipients of the Foundations of Faith scholarship designed to support first-year students with a clear calling to ministry. “As the dean of TBC, this scholarship is deeply meaningful. It represents our commitment to walk alongside young men and women whom…
Read MoreSouthwestern pledges continued cooperation after SACSCOC extends sanctions
President David S. Dockery announced today that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) has extended sanctions against Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary first implemented in 2023, while noting SACSCOC acknowledged “significant recent accomplishments in addressing noncompliance” and that institutional evidence “makes it reasonable for the Board to assume it will remedy…
Read MoreCouple invests in Southwestern to help raise up future leaders
As long-time members of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Bud and Wanda Crow have benefitted from the proximity of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and their faculty and alumni over the years, and as a result decided in the past 10 years to invest in the seminary financially as it trains future church leaders. “Going…
Read MoreBingham says writing makes him a better theologian, teacher
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of Southwestern News. D. Jeffrey Bingham thinks 21st century American evangelicals can learn a great deal from faithful second century Christians, and with that conviction, he has devoted a significant part of his scholarly endeavors to discover and share those practices with the evangelical academy.…
Read MoreJonathan Watson finds his ministry in the classroom
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2025 issue of Southwestern News. Jonathan Watson (’15) was on his way to a career in congregational ministry when he felt called in a different direction. He had started down that road early in life. Born in a Baptist hospital in Little Rock, Ark., and growing up…
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