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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 …

(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 …

Saturday mornings for many people means sleeping in, eating breakfast in pajamas and taking in a favorite lineup of cartoons. But that is not the slate of activities for Hank …

Chuck Lawless, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions and Evangelism at Southern, reminded attendees of the Missional Church Planting conference at Sojourn Community Church that spiritual warfare is …

The parents of Dagoberto Figueroa, who graduated earlier this month from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, were found dead in their home in Bogota, Colombia, on May 24, the apparent …

J.D. Payne, director of the Church Planting Center at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, identified eight characteristics to look for in potential members of a church planting team at the …

Every church and denomination is prone to an anti-missional mentality that must be combated for the sake of reaching the lost with the Gospel, Ed Stetzer said May 11 at …

Towersonline recently caught up with Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research & LifeWay’s Missiologist in Residence, for three questions. The questions are: What are the two biggest issues facing conservative …

Six years after ‘The Da Vinci Code’ first dominated the bestseller lists, suspense novelist Dan Brown continues to clean up in box offices and bookstores. The movie version of ‘Angels …