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Barber reminds Southwestern community not to grow weary in doing good during chapel message
Keep doing what is good even when ministry is tiring, preached Bart Barber, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of First Baptist Church of Farmersville, Texas, during his Sept. 29 chapel message at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist College. In his introduction of Barber, Interim President David S. Dockery described the…
Read MoreIorg urges Southwestern, TBC community to seek Jesus’s peace, stay on mission
A “pastoral word” about Jesus’s peace and a challenge to remain on mission was offered by Jeff P. Iorg, president of Gateway Seminary, during the Sept. 27 chapel service at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist College, the first held since the Sept. 22 resignation of former President Adam W. Greenway. Iorg, a 1990…
Read MoreO.S. Hawkins, David Dockery announced as joint interim leadership of Southwestern Seminary
Following a special-called meeting of the Board of Trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Chairman Danny Roberts today announced that trustees have invited O.S. Hawkins and David S. Dockery to provide joint leadership to the seminary during the interim period. Dockery will serve as interim president, while Hawkins will serve as senior advisor and ambassador-at-large.…
Read MoreStudents prevail over faculty again in annual softball game filled with fellowship, fun
Adding to their second consecutive loss, the Southwestern Seminary and Texas Baptist College faculty team fell to the student team 9-1 in an upset that was neither stunning nor hard fought during the annual Student vs. Faculty Softball Game held Sept. 22 at the Recreation and Aerobics Center’s field. Elijah Brewer, a TBC student enrolled…
Read MoreDockery named to Union University’s bicentennial hall of honor
A “humbled and grateful” David S. Dockery, distinguished professor of theology and director of the Dockery Center for Global Evangelical Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, was inducted into Union University’s bicentennial hall of honor during events held Sept. 23-24 at the Jackson, Tennessee, campus. Dockery, who served as Union’s fifteenth president from 1995-2014, said…
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