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Displaced NOBTS students settle into new lives in Louisville

Adam Dorsey barely paid attention to the television newscasters on Aug. 26 as they analyzed the Category 2 hurricane that was churning across the southernmost tip of Florida.

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Southern Seminary launches archives website

Information about a collection of rare Baptist history materials housed in the Boyce Library at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is now accessible online.

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Southern Seminary students impact Louisville through Reaching Out

One hundred Southern Baptist Theological Seminary students teamed with six local churches and the Baptist Student Union International ministry at the University of Louisville to share the Gospel throughout the city during the annual Reaching Out event, Oct. 22.

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Mohler: Theologians must not miss the chief end of theology

Pursuing a correct knowledge of biblical doctrine must lead Christians to a deeper love of both God and neighbor, or they will have missed the point of studying theology, said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in an Oct. 11 chapel sermon.

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Rainer bids farewell to Southern Seminary in Heritage Week sermon

Thom Rainer came to The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1994 as founding dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth, where he anticipated staying until his retirement.

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Southern Seminary receives $1 million endowed chair

Calling it “a hallmark in the history” of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, President R. Albert Mohler Jr. announced Wednesday a fully-funded $1 million endowed professorship, named in honor of late Alabama Christian statesman Albert Lee Smith, Jr.

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Increasing enrollment leading Southern Seminary to explore expanded class hours, Mohler tells trustees

To meet the demands of a steadily increasing student enrollment, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary may offer more classes during the early morning and evening, President R. Albert Mohler Jr. told the seminary’s board of trustees Tuesday during its annual fall meeting.

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Washington Post article highlights SBTS student’s unyielding devotion to Gospel

Peter Perl’s apprehension grew the minute he saw the roommate list for his trip to the Middle East.

For three weeks, the long-time newspaper journalist would be rooming with a Southern Baptist seminary student – and he was uneasy.

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Expository preaching corrects unbiblical worldviews, Akin says

To remedy the pervasive biblical illiteracy in America, ministers must return to the discipline of expository preaching, Daniel Akin said in chapel Oct. 6 at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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SBTS relief team ministers to Mississippians devastated by Katrina

Pictures are typically worth a thousand words, but the images that the television coverage of Hurricane Katrina produced did not prepare Mary Sills for the destruction she witnessed first-hand in southern Mississippi.

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NOBTS president thanks SBTS for “precious and sacrificial gift”

While many see only rubble when looking at what is left of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chuck Kelley sees something decidedly different: opportunity.

Kelley, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, visited the campus of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Tuesday to thank students for their gifts, prayers and encouragement for his flood-ravaged school.

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Baucham to SBTS students: Contend earnestly for the faith

Though contemporary voices of ‘tolerance’ view the proclamation of Christianity as a grossly intolerant act, every believer is called to contend for the Gospel in the public square, renowned evangelist Voddie Baucham told students during the Sept. 1 chapel service at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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For the Media

For news media seeking comments from President R. Albert Mohler Jr. or other seminary personalities, please contact:

Caleb Shaw
Executive Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff
(502) 897-4121
cshaw@sbts.edu

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