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The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is taking its Christian counseling department in a new direction, one built upon the sufficiency of Scripture and designed to train pastors to deal biblically with the needs of hurting people.

Students and faculty at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will send a team to assist with urgent tsunami relief projects in the Pacific Rim during the seminary’s spring reading days in April.

A genuine Gospel minister will receive the world’s scorn and not its praise by preaching the cross of Jesus Christ, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said Tuesday during the annual spring Convocation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Harold Songer, who served as professor of New Testament interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1962-1992, died Jan. 23 in Louisville, Ky., at the age of 77.

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.