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Dockery highlights enrollment, giving increases, recognizes staff in annual faculty, staff meeting
Increases in total enrollment and unrestricted giving for the recently concluded academic year and a new theme passage for the new academic year were announced by President David S. Dockery during an Aug. 9 annual meeting of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary personnel as the 2023-2024 academic year begins. “As we begin this new year, let…
Read MoreSouthwestern Seminary announces fall chapel schedule
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary released today the fall 2023 chapel schedule, which begins with Convocation and the investiture of President David S. Dockery on Aug. 22. Chancellor and Senior Professor of Pastoral Ministry and Evangelism O.S. Hawkins will preach on Aug. 24. The seminary’s board of trustees elected Dockery and Hawkins to their current roles…
Read MoreBellevue Baptist Church gifts Southwestern Seminary $100,000
Under the leadership of Pastor Steve Gaines, Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee, has gifted $100,000 to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, President David S. Dockery announced today. “The Southwestern community joins me in expressing our deepest gratitude for the friendship, encouragement, and generous support that Pastor Steve Gaines and the congregation at Bellevue Baptist Church…
Read MoreDockery announces Grace as provost, other academic leadership appointments
New academic leadership of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was named today by President David S. Dockery beginning with the fall semester, including naming W. Madison Grace II to the roles of provost and vice president for academic administration and dean of the School of Theology. Dockery also named Dean Sieberhagen, associate professor of Islamic Studies,…
Read MorePetroleum engineer pursues doctoral degree to train, reach Hispanic community
“Seminary.” It was the first word that popped into the mind of Cristina Aguilera, a Doctor of Education student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the morning after she was laid off from her engineering job in 2016. Aguilera, a native of Barranquilla, Colombia, a populated tropical city on the northern coast of the South American…
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