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Athletics run in Lee Sexton’s blood.

His father was a celebrated coach and athlete in Alabama, and his brother Billy has been an assistant to legendary Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden for the past 30 years. Following in the family mold, Sexton himself coached high school baseball and middle school football for four years.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Robert Plummer was recently became the first professor ever to receive a Louisville-area educational award for three consecutive years.

On Aug. 29, Hurricane Katrina swept into New Orleans, forever altering the lives of those who lived there. Damage and destruction permeated the city and surrounding areas. Ever since, people have sought to recover and piece back together their broken and storm-scattered lives.

Adam Dorsey barely paid attention to the television newscasters on Aug. 26 as they analyzed the Category 2 hurricane that was churning across the southernmost tip of Florida.

Information about a collection of rare Baptist history materials housed in the Boyce Library at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is now accessible online.

One hundred Southern Baptist Theological Seminary students teamed with six local churches and the Baptist Student Union International ministry at the University of Louisville to share the Gospel throughout the city during the annual Reaching Out event, Oct. 22.

Pursuing a correct knowledge of biblical doctrine must lead Christians to a deeper love of both God and neighbor, or they will have missed the point of studying theology, said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in an Oct. 11 chapel sermon.

Thom Rainer came to The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1994 as founding dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth, where he anticipated staying until his retirement.

Calling it “a hallmark in the history” of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, President R. Albert Mohler Jr. announced Wednesday a fully-funded $1 million endowed professorship, named in honor of late Alabama Christian statesman Albert Lee Smith, Jr.

To meet the demands of a steadily increasing student enrollment, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary may offer more classes during the early morning and evening, President R. Albert Mohler Jr. told the seminary’s board of trustees Tuesday during its annual fall meeting.

Peter Perl’s apprehension grew the minute he saw the roommate list for his trip to the Middle East.

For three weeks, the long-time newspaper journalist would be rooming with a Southern Baptist seminary student – and he was uneasy.

To remedy the pervasive biblical illiteracy in America, ministers must return to the discipline of expository preaching, Daniel Akin said in chapel Oct. 6 at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.