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Students entering a new season of preparation must refuse the counterfeit version of what God intends for them, said Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice in a chapel service at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

“The task of education, the task of teaching and learning, is an essentially theological task.” With that conviction, President R. Albert Mohler, Jr. set the terms for the Fall Convocation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College, gathering faculty, students, trustees, and guests in Alumni Chapel to consecrate the academic year to the Lord.

Andrew Walker did not set out to become a dean. He set out to argue that theology does not stay between the ears.

A total of 104 golfers turned out Monday for the 23rd annual Heritage Classic Golf Outing — an event that generated $282,000 that will help defray tuition costs for students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

More than 35 students and faculty from Southern, New Orleans, Southeastern, and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminaries spent two weeks in late May and early June on a joint mission trip to the Asia-Pacific region. Faculty members from the seminaries say the unprecedented partnership pictures the Southern Baptist Convention cooperating at its best.

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.