Posts by Alex Sibley

Even in this moment of “unprecedented challenge” brought about by COVID-19, President Adam W. Greenway assured the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) that “God is still doing an extraordinary work” at The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. In a pre-recorded report during the June 2 SBC Advance, a two-hour online event providing ministry updates from SBC entities,…

“This Week on the Hill” is a weekly roundup of campus news, announcements, and events from Southwestern Seminary and Scarborough College. COVID-19 Task Force establishes email address The Southwestern Seminary COVID-19 Task Force has made available an email address to answer questions anyone in the seminary community may have: covid19@swbts.edu. The Task Force will communicate…

The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s School of Church Music and Worship brought together more than 400 worship leaders across the nation in a May 29 webinar to hear faculty and state worship leaders discuss strategies for reopening in-person worship and related concerns. As churches begin to consider when and how they will welcome people back…

  A new book by R. Allen Lott, professor of music history at The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, offers a new perspective to the scholarly consensus regarding the Christian nature of German composer Johannes Brahms’ famous piece, “A German Requiem.” Published this month by University of Rochester Press, Brahms’s A German Requiem: Reconsidering its Biblical, Historical,…

The presidents of two Southern Baptist Convention seminaries—Adam W. Greenway of The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Jamie Dew of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary—participated in a live Zoom chat on “leading in/beyond COVID-19” with hosts Matt Henslee and Kyle Bueermann of “Not Another Baptist Podcast,” May 28. The two presidents, who were elected to their…