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Fall Gheens Lectures 2010

Hunter Baker will deliver the fall 2010 Gheens Lectures, “The System Has a Soul: Lectures on Christianity and Secularism,” in Heritage Hall Sept. 14-15. Baker is senior associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and associate professor of political science at Union University. He has written for numerous popular and scholarly publications, and has worked for the Rutherford Institute, Prison Fellowship Ministries and the Georgia Family Council. The first 100 students to arrive for Baker’s first lecture at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 14, will receive a complimentary copy of his book The End of Secularism (Crossway, 2009). The Gheens Lectureship schedule is as follows:

Tuesday Sept. 14

1:00 p.m. Lecture 1, “Freedom, Democracy, and Secularism?”
2:30 p.m. Lecture 2, “Decline, Fall, and the Options”

Wednesday Sept. 15

10:00 a.m. Lecture 3, “Secularism, Church, and Society”

SBTS anticipates fall festival

Southern Seminary encourages its faculty, staff and students to attend Southern’s sixth annual Fall Festival, Sept. 10 from 6 - 9 p.m. All food and activities are free of charge.

This year’s festival will celebrate Kentucky life, exploring three unique themed areas: Kentucky State Fair, Frontier Land and Fort Knox.

Kentucky State Fair will feature carnival rides and games, inflatables, a Ferris wheel and traditional fair food, including popcorn, cotton candy and nachos. Fort Knox will host inflatables provided by the Mobile Event Team from the Kentucky National Guard and offer MRE’s, military meals ready to eat. Frontier Land food will include burgoo, a traditional Kentucky chili-like stew served alongside cornbread, and watermelon.

Students Earn Course Credit During REFO500 Conference

SBTS students can earn course credit by attending the REFO500 conference. Students should enroll in Studies in Theology: Reformation Theology and Piety with Dr. Michael Haykin, an intensive study of the Reformation in Germany, Switzerland, France and England. Each enrolled student must attend the eight class lectures on Friday, September 24, and Monday, September 27, and the entire Conference: Refo500: Challenges and Opportunities between Now and 2017. Contact Academic Records at 502-897-4209 or academicrecords@sbts.edu.

Blogs

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No Need for God? Stephen Hawking Defies Divine Creation
by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. – Sep 7

By any measure, Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and influential figures in modern science. For thirty years, he served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and his career before and after his decades in that post is the stuff of scientific legend. He is also probably the longest-living person ever to be diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS], and the very fact that he has been productive since that diagnosis at age 21 is a testimony to his sense of personal mission and sheer determination.

The Predicament — Francis Collins, Human Embryos, Evolution, and the Sanctity of Human Life
Sep 3

Francis Collins stands at the very summit of the scientific community. He successfully led the massive effort to map the entire human genome, bringing the project to completion ahead of time and under budget. He now serves as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), having been nominated by President Barack Obama last summer. He oversees one of the largest research budgets in the world and, armed with a Ph.D., a medical degree, and a long list of accomplishments, is one of the most influential scientists of the last 100 years.

God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck
by Russell D. Moore – Aug 30

A Mormon television star stands in front of the Lincoln Memorial and calls American Christians to revival. He assembles some evangelical celebrities to give testimonies, and then preaches a God and country revivalism that leaves the evangelicals cheering that they’ve heard the gospel, right there in the nation’s capital. The news media pronounces him the new leader of America’s Christian conservative movement, and a flock of America’s Christian conservatives have no problem with that.

Never Having to Say You’re Dead? The New Interest in Reincarnation
by R. Albert Mohler, Jr. – Aug 30

Dr. Paul DeBell believes that he was once a caveman. Not only that, he is fairly certain that his life as a caveman ended violently. “I was going along, going along, going along, and I got eaten,” said the psychiatrist.

To his life as a caveman, Dr. DeBell adds his knowledge of previous lives as a Tibetan monk and “a conscientious German who refused to betray his Jewish neighbors in the Holocaust.” Dr. DeBell’s account is found in “Remembrances of Lives Past” by Lisa Miller of Newsweek magazine, published in the August 29, 2010 edition of The New York Times. Miller writes of the growing acceptance of the idea of reincarnation among Americans.

History Highlight

1899: E. Y. Mullins elected president of SBTS

On June 29, 1899, 36 members of the Southern Seminary board of trustees gathered in Atlanta, Ga., for the purpose of electing a new seminary president. William H. Whitsitt had resigned as president earlier that year amid controversy surrounding his published views regarding the history of baptism by immersion. The effects of that controversy and the decision by J. P. Greene of William Jewel College to decline the seminary presidency left the seminary in urgent need of a new president. That leader was chosen in Atlanta as the trustees unanimously voted to elect E. Y. Mullins to the presidency.

Mullins was serving as pastor of Newton Centre Church in Massachusetts as the seminary trustees gathered in Atlanta. According to his wife, Isla May Mullins, the first telegram that was received regarding his election as president provided for more confusion that clarity. That telegram from the editor of the Baptist Argus simply read “Congratulations. Send your photograph.”[1]

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Current Impact

Is It Wrong to Display a Picture of Robert E. Lee? My Response

As I write this, I can see on my wall the flag of my home state of Mississippi, and I’m deeply conflicted about it. The flag represents home for me. I love Christ, church, and family more than Mississippi, but that’s about it. Still, the flag makes me wince because emblazoned on it is the Confederate Battle Flag, which was used so often in my home state, and elsewhere, as an emblem of backlash in support of the ugly epoch of Jim Crow. I supported a referendum changing the flag in 2001, but the voters of the state kept the old flag design by a vote of 65 to 35 percent. The more I think of it, the more I believe my conflicted feelings about that flag aren’t all that unusual for a Christian.

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