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When Jeff Robinson arrived in Louisville in January 2000, he planned to earn an MDiv and prepare for pastoral ministry. What he did not expect was that the next two decades would bind his life, work, and family so closely to Southern Seminary that friends now jokingly call him “Mister Southern Seminary.”

John D. Wilsey, Chair of the Church History department at Southern Seminary, received one of the highest intellectual honors this summer as the Heritage Foundation awarded him with a Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize.

Congregations enter their places of worship every Sunday morning without having rehearsed a note. But they will soon lift their voices in singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to the glory of God. Nobody warmed up in the car. They will simply enter, find the melody already familiar, and sing.

That surprise turned into something life-changing. She took one class, then another. This May, she walked across the stage and graduated with the Advanced Certificate in Ministry Studies from Boyce College with more than 55 credit hours completed. She leaves campus with a seminary education she never saw coming.

Trace Hamiter had been watching it happen for years. Students would graduate high school, leave their churches, and arrive at Auburn University. Within months, they drifted. Not because they renounced their faith, but because no one had helped them find their footing before the drift began.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has named Trevor Coleman as Assistant Professor of Church Music and Worship. Coleman brings over a decade of pastoral ministry and a robust background in vocal performance and music education to Southern’s Department of Biblical Worship.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary hosted its annual Alumni & Friends Luncheon in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, welcoming nearly 1,000 alumni, guests, and leaders from partner institutions across Southern Baptist life for a time of joyful fellowship and gratitude for the Lord's faithfulness.

President R. Albert Mohler, Jr. used his report to the 2026 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting to point messengers to the health and faithfulness of the convention’s six seminaries, and Southern Seminary in particular, crediting the convention’s long commitment to owning and funding theological education. In his 33rd annual report as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mohler expressed gratitude for the faithful support of Southern Baptists and renewed Southern’s commitment to leading in training ministers for the churches.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has announced that Logos Max, the full-featured tier of the Logos Bible Software platform, will be made available to all doctoral students at no additional cost.

Alexis Hewitt enrolled in Southern Seminary’s Seminary Wives Institute in 2023. She never set foot on campus. She completed seven courses from home, caring for four young children, and needed only two more to earn her certificate when she died on January 2, 2026. She had turned 32 on Christmas Eve.

On Friday, May 8, 2026, faculty, family, and friends gathered on the Seminary Lawn for the 237th Commencement Ceremony of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. They joined together on a beautiful spring morning for a day Mohler called "marvelous" and "stupendous in gospel eyes," celebrating the graduates as they prepare to take their place in pulpits, churches, classrooms, and mission fields around the world.

For the third consecutive spring, Southern Seminary and Boyce College gathered to celebrate recipients of the Mary K. Mohler Scholarship. The inaugural 2024 luncheon honored ten students, while this year’s event welcomed 26 scholarship recipients, with 19 attending in person to share a meal with the donors who made their studies possible.