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Pictures are typically worth a thousand words, but the images that the television coverage of Hurricane Katrina produced did not prepare Mary Sills for the destruction she witnessed first-hand in southern Mississippi.

While many see only rubble when looking at what is left of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chuck Kelley sees something decidedly different: opportunity.

Kelley, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, visited the campus of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Tuesday to thank students for their gifts, prayers and encouragement for his flood-ravaged school.

Though contemporary voices of ‘tolerance’ view the proclamation of Christianity as a grossly intolerant act, every believer is called to contend for the Gospel in the public square, renowned evangelist Voddie Baucham told students during the Sept. 1 chapel service at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Governments, corporations, educational institutions, businesses and churches all need leaders, and it is the church’s responsibility to train up youth to fill those positions, Jimmy Scroggins said during the Vision Conference VII at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

After visiting 20 churches in seven states this summer, Thomas Bolton has some fresh ideas for training Southern Baptist Theological Seminary students to serve effectively in local church music ministries.

Bolton, dean of the school of church music and worship at Southern, spent 11 Sundays visiting some of the Southern Baptist Convention’s most prominent churches.

For the past 150 years Mormonism has been in conflict with biblical, historic Christianity.

However, leaders of Mormonism—officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)—have in recent years downplayed the cult’s divergence from traditional Christianity and now portray it as merely another form of the biblical faith.

The president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary did not have to look far to find a new dean for the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth.

R. Albert Mohler Jr. has appointed Charles E. Lawless, the Graham School’s senior associate dean, as its new leader.

Paul was a member of First Baptist Church who attended every Sunday morning. Other church members often commented favorably on Paul’s faithfulness. But in reality Sunday morning worship attendance was the limit of Paul’s commitment to the church.

Trustees of LifeWay Christian Resources unanimously approved the election of Thom S. Rainer to become the ninth president of the Southern Baptist entity Sept. 12.

When Hochel Song and his family left their home on the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary campus Aug. 27, they expected to return within a couple of days.

Students, faculty and staff at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary should pray, give and go to assist with relief in wake of Hurricane Katrina, seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. …

LOUISVILLE, Ky.–Ministers are not volunteers who join a profession, but are earthen vessels chosen and equipped by God to proclaim His Word for His glory, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said …