Posts by Ashley Allen
Johnson Ferry Baptist Church gives $100,000 gift to ‘invest’ in Southwestern Seminary’s future
Ending the year with funds allowing it “to be a blessing to others,” Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia, under the leadership of Pastor Clay Smith, gave Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary a gift of $100,000, seminary officials announced today. “We are incredibly grateful to God for the wonderful generosity of the Johnson Ferry Baptist…
Read MoreThe power of the Word of God in a lifetime of ministry: Charles Stanley’s obedience to the Lord yields fruit around the world
Editor’s note: this article appears in the Fall 2022 issue of Southwestern News. Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Hendersonville, North Carolina, amid apple orchards, farms, streams, and trees whose orange, red, and yellow leaves merge to look like velvet rippling over the mountains in the fall, sits Fruitland Baptist Church. Pastoring the small church…
Read MoreSouthwestern PhD student first to research in new Billy Graham archives
When the Archive and Research Center at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, opened to researchers on Nov. 8, Anatoliy Orgunov, a Doctor of Philosophy student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, was the first person to have access to the historical artifacts and papers of the late, world-renowned evangelist.…
Read MoreCorbitt collection provides glimpse into African hymnody
A collection of more than 250 books, hymnals, Gospel songbooks, music scores, sound recordings, and video recordings that highlight various African dialects were donated recently to the Kathryn Bowld Music Library at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary by Nathan Corbitt, a 1985 Doctor of Musical Arts graduate and retired missionary to Eastern and Southern Africa with…
Read MoreFaculty, students represent Southwestern, TBC at annual ETS meeting
Faculty and doctoral students from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist College represented the Fort Worth institution through 19 paper presentations and moderation of seven panel discussions at the 2022 annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), held Nov. 15-17 in Denver. The theme of this year’s conference was “Holiness.” “What a joy…
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