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The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Wednesday named James Merritt its 2005 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year at the school’s annual luncheon at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

When Southern Baptist Theological Seminary was founded in 1859, Southern Baptists were just beginning to face the challenge of scientific naturalism as advocated by Charles Darwin in England.

The Great Commission should compel Southern Baptists to conduct ministry among visually impaired men and women, Paul Ferrara said during a reorganizational meeting of the Southern Baptist Conference of the Blind June 18-19 in Nashville, Tenn.

The day Buddy Gray preached his first sermon at age 16 he did not lose a single member of his congregation.

As Brian Vickers walked through the streets of Calcutta, India, he saw small children carrying starving infants and begging for money. He passed Hindu religious parades, heard Muslim calls to prayer and observed “grinding poverty” among the city’s 13-15 million residents.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has appointed noted women’s ministry leader Jaye Martin as interim director of women’s ministry programs.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has appointed to its faculty “two of the most high-powered Old Testament scholars in the evangelical world,” according to Russell D. Moore, Southern’s senior vice president for academic administration and dean of the school of theology.

Graduates of Boyce College have a responsibility to use their education to impact the world for Christ, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said at the college’s commencement service May 14. Boyce College is the undergraduate school of Southern Seminary.

Moses is an excellent example of humility and faith that teaches modern church leaders how to remain faithful to their calling, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said Friday during his spring graduation address at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

How can seminary students, faculty and staff use their theological knowledge to make an immediate impact throughout the world for Christ?

Evangelical Christians have a new Internet resource to help them think through today’s critical cultural, theological and ethical issues. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has launched a new weblog or “blog.”

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary recently appointed to its faculty noted spiritual disciplines scholar Donald S. Whitney to teach in a new professorship of biblical spirituality and to pioneer a doctoral program in Christian spirituality.