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J.D. Greear serves as the lead pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Before starting at the Summit in 2002, Greear worked with the International Mission Board among Muslims …

News.sbts.edu will feature a live blog of the Baptist21 panel at Sojourn Community Church during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. The panel discussion is scheduled to take place from …

Have you ever wanted to get inside the head of the author of your favorite book? Have you ever asked yourself, “Why didn’t they say this?” or “What do they …

News.sbts.edu is the official news portal of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS). News.sbts.edu is the companion of Towers, the official newspaper of Southern. Towers is published bi-weekly during the …

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 …