Archive for October 2025
Retired Southwestern music professor donates library, musical documents
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary accepted a gift from former, long-time professor Claude Bass as he donated his extensive library of books and musical works to the Bowld Music Library in Cowden Hall. Bass said music librarian Fang Lan Hsieh had come to his home to look at his library of books but showed interest in…
Read MoreFree tickets available for fifth annual Prelude to Christmas
For a fifth year, the School of Church Music and Worship (SCMW) presents Prelude to Christmas, a free musical event to kick off the holiday season for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and surrounding communities. “Our School of Church Music and Worship might be one of the best kept secrets in the entire metroplex,” SCMW Dean…
Read MoreSouthwesterner Bob Ray marks 60 years as pastor of Fairy Baptist
Bob Ray has seen a lot in his years as pastor of Fairy Baptist Church, located in the small Central Texas community of Fairy, but when the congregation was planning to celebrate his 60th year in the same pulpit, he didn’t know what to expect. The only thing his son Richard, associate pastor of the…
Read MoreSouthwestern invites churches to visit campus for tours
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary welcomes churches and their congregants to tour the Fort Worth campus as a way to witness one way churches’ Cooperative Program support is used, to see an example of theological education, and to meet the faculty and students of the seminary that serves to equip men and women for service in…
Read MoreSouthwestern receives Lilly Endowment grant
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has been named a recipient of a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative. The $871,074 grant will be used over the next five years. “Southwestern Seminary is deeply grateful to Lilly Endowment for this generous expression of support to strengthen our efforts to resource pastoral ministry…
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