Southern Stories
From Google to Grudem
Jake Tuazon’s path to SBTS
Boston: The most strategic city on earth?
Southern Seminary alumnus Bland Mason and the quiet, strategic movement to reach America’s most iconic city.
Billy Graham and Southern Seminary
Seven decades of Great Commission collaboration
Morgan Wild: From the jungles of Indonesia to the halls of Boyce College
Morgan Wild grew up on the mission field of Indonesia with his life on camera.
From Pulaski County to Podolsk, Russia
Melissa Tucker feels most at home within the classroom
Here We Stand
Eight ways the Protestant Reformation continues to shape evangelicalism — and Southern Seminary
SBTS community remembers Draper at memorial service
Southern Story
Blessing the bereaved: Jane Kratz turned her grief into ministry
After losing her husband to cystic fibrosis, Kratz committed herself to helping others deal with their own grief.
Monks, meditation, and Matthew
A Vietnamese student’s road to faith
‘Giving Joy’
As a student and supporter, Shelley Caulder’s joyful presence has changed lives at Southern Seminary.
Heroes of the ‘Hardshells’: The other 1980s comic about turtles
Created by then-M.Div. student Tom Williams, two years before the comic book debut of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a band of anthropomorphic terrapins graced the pages of Towers.
Confessing the faith: Mohler on the importance of Southern’s Abstract of Principles
EDITOR’S NOTE: In what follows, Southern Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. discusses the new SBTS Press title, Confessing the Faith: The Living Legacy of Southern Seminary’s Abstract of Principles, with Towers editor S. Craig Sanders. CS: The title of your introduction is “Confessional Integrity: The Abstract of Principles Then and Now.” What has changed…
Feature review: ‘Confessing the Faith: The Living Legacy of Southern Seminary’s Abstract of Principles’
R. Albert Mohler Jr., editor Confessing the Faith: The Living Legacy of Southern Seminary’s Abstract of Principles (SBTS Press 2016, $16.99) Three decades ago, when R. Albert Mohler Jr. enrolled as a student at Southern Seminary, some of his professors openly disagreed with the institution’s confession of faith. Written by Basil Manly Jr. in 1858 as the…
‘Unexpected Providence’
Matthew Hall’s journey from seminary student to Boyce dean
The Lasting Influence of Francis Schaeffer’s Apologetics
Francis Schaeffer championed an understanding of reason and faith that influenced a generation of Christian scholars.
A Gift Centuries in the Making
The story of Ken and Barbara Larson’s Torah scroll donation to Southern Seminary
Jimmy Carter and the SBC
When Jimmy Carter’s presidential term was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 1977, he became the first U.S. president to be affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. At the time, it was an affiliation he embraced, and the denomination embraced him in return. That year, President Carter participated in a short video, “In an Act of Love,”…