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Each week this fall more than half a dozen teams of students from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary will proclaim the saving message of Christ to lost men and women in Louisville.

ore than four dozen students and faculty members from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary participated in mission trips to five countries in three continents this summer.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary student Joseph Doubles died tragically of acute brain trauma Aug. 3 after falling from his bicycle. The master of divinity in Christian education student was 33.

Monica Merrifield was a separatist long before separatism was cool. At her Roman Catholic elementary school, a precocious Merrifield regularly quizzed the nuns on the significance of such dalliances as icons and Rosary beads.

James L. Blevins, a former professor of New Testament interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, died July 24 in Louisville, Ky., after a long-term illness. He was 67.

At first glance, the story of Esther Crookshank’s family seems like the classic Staten Island story. But, it is much more than that.

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on a bill that would prevent federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from reviewing the federal Defense of Marriage Act — the law that gives states the option of not recognizing same-sex “marriage.”

During her time at Southern Seminary, Chandi Plummer participated in women’s ministry, music ministry, overseas missions, college ministry and cross-cultural ministry. Of all her ministry opportunities, however, Plummer says that being a wife and mother allows her to have the greatest impact for the kingdom of God.

One of the leading young theologians in the Southern Baptist Convention, Russell Moore, has been named a contributing editor of the national magazine Touchstone. Moore is the dean of the school of theology and senior vice president for academic administration at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and the founding director of the seminary’s Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement.

Presumed Democratic nominee John Kerry chose John Edwards as his running mate July 6 in hopes of balancing the ticket with a senator that some view as a southern moderate.

Young men and women should not delay marriage until it is convenient for them to take a spouse but should actively seek the mate God has chosen for them, R. Albert Mohler Jr. told a national radio audience.

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.