Dr. Terence Fretheim, the Elva B. Lovell Professor of Old Testament at Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN, will be our featured presenter at the 2012 Winter Pastors' School.

Scot McKnight, Ph.D., the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University in Chicago, will be the featured speaker at George W. Truett Theological Seminary's Parchman Endowed Lecture Series from Oct. 11-13.

Dr. Joel C. Gregory, Professor of Preaching at Truett Seminary will present our Fall Preaching Convocation & Workshop, September 26-27, 2011. More information and an online registration form can be found on the Fall Preaching Convocation and Workshop webpage.

Dr. Joel C. Gregory, presented a special report on "Global Baptist Preaching" to the Baptist World Alliance meeting July 4-9 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Recordings from the five main sessions of the second annual "Pillars Conference: A Celebration of Senior Adults" are now available online. These recordings can be found on the Pillars Conference page.

Pillars: A Celebration of Senior Adults, hosted by George W. Truett Theological Seminary, will be held Tuesday, May 24, through Thursday, May 26, as a time to reflect on the importance of senior citizens in the community.

Clint Dobson, pastor of NorthPointe Church and George W. Truett Theological Seminary graduate, was murdered on March 3 in his church office. Rather than let tragedy have the final say, Dobson's family has partnered with his friends at George W. Truett Theological Seminary to create the Clint Dobson Memorial Fund, a scholarship that will serve future seminary students and celebrate Dobson's life.

Dobson's brother and sister, Chris Kirchmer and Sarah Dobson Mitchell, developed the idea to start a memorial fund and quickly approached the seminary with the idea.

"This was something, because of his [Dobson's] love for Truett and Baylor, the family wanted to do," said David Hardage, director of development at Truett. "They wanted to continue his ministry and establish a legacy of his life that would be difference making for years and decades to come."

Dobson's siblings said they strongly feel they are not just doing this to remember him, but also to continue the ministry he started.
"It's more personal than just being in his memory," Kirchmer said. "For us, we see this as our final gift for Clint but beyond that, it's important because we believe in what he was doing. There is going to be an opportunity for someone, even if it's not Clint, to continue with that ministry."

It is fair to say that most youth ministers desire to not only personally live a Christian life, but lead others to do so, as well. They want to honor God, share Christ and minister to adolescents and their families.
In pursuit of that goal, youth ministers seem to have a mystical ability to transcend controversial divisions, denominational litmus tests and personal preference in the name of collaborating with others who love God and teenagers as much as they do. This is evidenced by the many conferences and events held each year in the United States and around the world, where thousands upon thousands of youth and adult youth leaders come together to praise God and learn more about serving Jesus with and among teenagers.
However, there can be a potentially negative side of youth workers bypassing differences. This can happen when theological convictions take a back seat to cooperation, leaving theological convictions necessarily shallow.

Dr. Henry H. Mitchell, retired Visiting Professor of Homiletics at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, will present this year's W.C. Dobbs Endowed Lecture in Applied Christianity on "Holy Spirit, Human Emotion and Black Preaching" at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 22, in Paul W. Powell Chapel of George W. Truett Theological Seminary on the Baylor campus.