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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?

The re-election of President George W. Bush represented a grassroots rejection of a radical leftward shift in the culture, Russell D. Moore said in a television debate on Nov. 22.

A new TV advertisement promoting the United Church of Christ says that God is still speaking and at least insinuates that He is now affirming homosexuality.

Members of the Evangelical Theological Society have passed a resolution to consider using the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy to clarify the organization’s position on the inerrancy of Scripture.

Students and faculty from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary partnered with the Kentucky Baptist Convention recently to take the good news of Jesus Christ to the streets of Louisville.