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Akin announced retirement plans to students during chapel service
Daniel Akin, the president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, announced to students gathered for a chapel service on Tuesday (Oct. 14) that he plans to retire this summer.
Most of the nation’s largest seminaries are evangelical.
Seminary enrollment is up, according to data collected by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), an accrediting agency for seminaries.
Liberty tops the list; 6 of top 10 are SBC related
Liberty Theological Seminary now ranks largest with 4,050 full-time enrolled students and a headcount of 5,507 (the institution has a sizable online enrollment). Liberty University’s John W. Rawlings School of Divinity received ATS accreditation in ...
Young led Houston’s Second Baptist Church for nearly 50 years.
Ed Young, long-time pastor of Houston’s Second Baptist Church, has announced he will retire from leading the church.
Seminaries offer college-level theological training to prisoners
Several Christian seminaries and educational institutions offer various certificates and degrees in ministry for incarcerated persons.
More than 12,000 local church representatives, known as messengers, will gather in New Orleans, ready to do their denomination's business.
Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention’s constituent churches has been plummeting, its national leaders are feuding or quitting, and any good work the denomination could boast about has been largely overshadowed by a sex abuse ...
Jim Goldston and wife Agnes accused of poisoning neighbor's three dogs
Southern Baptists have been dogged by leadership scandals for years. Now they have a different kind of abuse scandal on their hands.
Karen Swallow Prior, Research Professor of English and Christianity and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS), announced yesterday (Mar. 20) on Twitter that she won’t be returning for fall semester due to differing visions ...
Two Southern Baptist churches are the subject of an inquiry by the denomination’s Credentials Committee into whether they should be removed from friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention.
Twenty-four men wearing black caps and gowns strode across the stage of the Nash Correctional gym last week to collect a Bachelor of Arts diploma in pastoral ministry.
