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Scripture affirms that God is absolutely sovereign over His creation.

Yet, human beings make choices every day, and God holds them morally responsible for these choices. How are believers to understand these two teachings in light of each other?

Where was God when an earthquake on the floor of the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that snuffed out the lives of thousands—many of them children—along the coast of South Asia the day after Christmas?

Two Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professors were recently honored for excellence in course development by a Louisville-area educational awards program.

Present evangelical scholars will determine what future generations of evangelicals believe about such central issues as truth, the Bible and even the Gospel, R. Albert Mohler Jr. told attendees of the Evangelical Theological Society’s (ETS) 56th annual meeting.

William Johnson says it will take some time for him to grow accustomed to looking out over the congregation at Crescent Hill Baptist Church and not seeing the face of Roy L. Honeycutt looking back attentively toward the pulpit.

James Lenox Sullivan, Southern Baptist statesman and retired president of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board (now LifeWay Christian Resources), died Dec. 27 at Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tenn., following a brief illness. He was 94.

Roy Honeycutt, who served as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1982-1993, died Dec. 21 from head injuries sustained the previous day in an accident at his home in Louisville, Ky. He was 78.

Colleagues of Roy Honeycutt praised the eighth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary for his gracious character, commitment to students and tireless service for Southern Baptists.

The theory of evolution has become an intellectual pacifier for the secular left in America, and the desire of a Pennsylvania school system to teach Intelligent Design is a signal that parents are fed up with standard liberal teaching on the origins of humanity, R. Albert Mohler Jr. told viewers of MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country,” Thursday night.

Ministers must consider their work a calling from God rather than an opportunity for professional advancement, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr. said during the school’s fall graduation ceremony Dec. 10.

A recent debate on stem cell research highlighted the worldview differences between a current professor and a former professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Is the Kingdom of Christ a present or future reality? Is it spiritual or material? Is it the church or the world? Or is it neither or both? Is it to be found in evangelizing the lost or in reclaiming the culture?