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From the radio waves to Twitter
Today, one cannot truly follow the happenings of the Southern Seminary community without keeping an eye on the school’s various social media outlets. Both professors and students develop their own personal social webs. The community uses social media to make announcements, praise friends, entreat prayers, recommend articles or sermons and provide simple updates about life…
iPhone, iPads and Christian parenting
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the following, Russell D. Moore writes about one of the most pressing implications of parenting in the digital age. Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Here’s what I just don’t understand: the trend among professing Christian families to give unrestricted Internet access to their pre-teen children through iPhones…
Don’t Just Stand There: Do Something
Opening Convocation – John 9:1-7 The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary August 26, 2003 Alumni Memorial Chapel The convocation ceremony and service is now very much a part of American academic life. This is an inheritance from the medieval era, when in the day of the rise of the university, Christian scholars gathered together faculty and…
Don’t Just Do Something: Stand There
The 1993 Convocation Address delivered by R. Albert Mohler, Jr, President The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Charting the new digital engagement: the gospel and your iPhone
We have all seen it. The father, surrounded by t-shirted kids clamoring for his attention, lost in the alternate universe of his iPhone. “Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!” they shout, little arms straight up in the air, as if they can physically pull his attention back to them. It’s enough to make a casual bystander want…
The vision of James P. Boyce and the Abstract of Principles
Boyce believed that the Baptist seminary he desired to establish must be two things: conformed to scriptural truth and faithful to serve its denomination.
Review: The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments
(Baker 2013, $44.99), Thomas R. Schreiner Review by Josh Hayes Some say that genius is making the complex seem simple. If this is so, then calling New Testament scholar and Southern Seminary professor Thomas R. Schreiner a genius may not be an overstatement. Whether in writing, the classroom or the pulpit, Schreiner displays an uncanny…
The better we see the big picture, the better we see Jesus: Schreiner talks The King in His Beauty
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below, Thomas R. Schreiner, James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Southern Seminary, discusses his new book, The King in His Beauty: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments, with Towers contributor Josh Hayes. JH: For our readers who might be less familiar with the term, what is…
Mohler on new semester: rapid culture change requires ‘whole new set of skills’ for pastors
“As I start a third decade as president of Southern Seminary, I recognize that the year 2013 is light- years from the year 1993,” said R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Seminary. “Twenty years is what time will record, but in terms of cultural and intellectual change, it’s far more than that.” According to…
Towers | August 2013
The Digital Divide: A Wake Up Call To Christian Leaders
Retailers have no choice but to go where consumers are. The Wall Street Journal recently looked at a typical American family, the Ulitcans of Columbus, Ohio. The 50-something parents have four children, ranging in age from 10 to 27. The parents do their shopping in local stores and shopping malls. Their children do not follow…
Preach Christ from the Gospels
In the gospels, the biblical storyline moves from the Old Testament promise of a messianic kingdom to the presence of the messianic King
Church Necessarily: Allison Discusses His New Book
EDITOR’S NOTE: In what follows, Southern Seminary Magazine writer Craig Sanders talks with Gregg Allison, professor of Christian theology at Southern Seminary, about his new book, Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of the Church (Crossway 2012). CS: Of all the topics in systematic theology, what made you want to write about ecclesiology? Gregg Allison (GA):…
Sojourners and Strangers: The Doctrine of the Church
(crossway 2012, $40) Gregg R. Allison Gifted theologians offer much guidance in areas like biblical theology, Christology and ethics, but resources that set forth ecclesiology are rarer, particularly from a robust Baptist perspective. Gregg R. Allison, professor of Christian theology at Southern Seminary, fills that void with his latest book, Sojourners and Strangers. “The church…
Why “love your neighbor” requires more than preaching the gospel
Evangelicals tend to only follow the spiritual aspect of Jesus’s mission, but this falls short of obeying the Lord’s command.
Overwhelming Evidence for the Trustworthiness of the New Testament
The Man Christ Jesus: Theological Reflections on the Humanity of Christ
(crossway 2013, $15.99), Bruce A. Ware Did the baby Jesus know the quadratic formula? Many among conservative evangelical churches might respond to the question with a quick, emphatic “yes.” After all, Jesus is God, and God knows everything, math included. However, the answer to the question is more complex than this. To give the “yes”…