News

In addition to the recent release of a new history of the seminary and a new biography of founding president James P. Boyce, two additional collections of writings from two of Southern’s founding fathers arrived in bookstores this week from Founders Press: “Stray Recollections, Short Articles and Public Orations of James P. Boyce” and “Soldiers of Christ: Selections from the Writings of Basil Manly, Sr., & Basil Manly, Jr.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: Greg Wills is the author of a recently released history of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary titled, “Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859-2009” (Oxford). Wills is professor of church …

Any candid observer at the 2008 Southern Baptist Convention would tell you that while many booths and exhibits at the annual meeting were manned by 20 to 30-year-olds, the convention …

A large event like the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting requires behind the scenes volunteers in many areas in order for things to run smoothly. Two of those areas are …

In late 1879, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was as good as dead. A post-Civil War financial panic left the school’s donor base unable—and in some cases unwilling—to fulfill pledges …

Southern Seminary students are gearing up to share the Gospel with hundreds of their non-Christian neighbors as a part of Crossover Louisville this weekend. Crossover is the evangelistic blitz Southern …

Congregational praise and worship and special music are a staple of each Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting and this year Southern graduate Dan Odle will play a leading role in …

Editor’s note: Tom Nettles is the author of a recently released biography on Southern Seminary’s founding president, James Petrigru Boyce, titled, “James Petigru Boyce: A Southern Baptist Statesman” (P&R). Nettles …

EDITOR’S NOTE: Tom Nettles is the author of a recently released biography on Southern Seminary’s founding president titled, “James Petigru Boyce: A Southern Baptist Statesman” (P&R). Nettles has served as …

Tom Nettles has written, co-written or edited nearly a dozen books on Baptist history. But he wanted to quit in the middle of his latest book, a recently-released biography of …

With Louisville hosting the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 23-24, some Southern Seminary students will see for the first time the structure and operation of the world’s largest Protestant …

(The following article originally appeared in SBC Life) On a sultry July day in 1856, an up-and-coming professor at Furman University stood before his faculty colleagues and delivered his inaugural …