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Southern Baptists declined to consider a new name for the denomination, pulled out of the Baptist World Alliance, rejected a much-publicized education proposal and heard a speech from President Bush during their June 15-16 annual meeting.

R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, received the highest honor given by the Black Southern Baptist Denominational Network at its annual meeting in Indianapolis.

Southern Baptist seminaries face the great challenge of producing faithful ministers in a faithless world, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said in a report to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis June 16.

Baptist associations must strive for greatness in the area of evangelism, said Thom Rainer, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Is it important for a Christian to study biblical doctrine or should all Christians merely love Jesus and leave theology to trained theologians?

Before Sept. 11, 2001, Islam was but a blip on the religious radar screen of most Americans.

But today the world’s second largest religion is on the minds of many people, particularly those in the evangelical church, yet few understand its history or its theology.

Ed Stucky planned to read during a recent plane ride from Orlando to Louisville.

But when fellow passengers began asking questions about the Bible, the Southern Seminary student from Townsend, Tenn., found himself standing in the aisle and sharing the Gospel with more than 70 people.

Most graduates of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will have the opportunity to impact a church for the Kingdom of God.

But William and Kam See Fung will have the opportunity to impact 500 churches in 30 countries upon their graduation from Southern this spring.

Ministers of the Gospel must proclaim the Word of God and also live without compromise by its mandates, Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said during the school’s spring graduation ceremony on May 14.

The presidents of the six Southern Baptist seminaries issued a joint statement May 17 upholding marriage as the permanent union between one man and one woman as defined by God in the Bible. They called on all Southern Baptist churches to stand in defense of the institution of marriage.

Earl Wayne Minor has proclaimed the Gospel in a combat zone in Southeast Asia, a hospice program in Florida and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

During each ministry opportunity Minor, a retired U.S. Air Force chaplain, says he drew upon the training he received at Southern Seminary nearly six decades ago.

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will send more than 50 people on mission trips to five countries in three continents this summer.

The trips, which will be lead by Southern professors, are scheduled for Kenya May 17-31, Tanzania May 17-31, Southern Sudan May 17-31, Ecuador May 15-26 and East Asia July 24-August 9.