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  • NOBTS president reflects on first year, looks ahead
    by Joshua Owens/The TEXAN, posted Friday, June 05, 2020 (3 years ago)

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    When Jamie Dew and his family arrived last summer in New Orleans to lead the Southern Baptist seminary there, people told them, "If you love the city it will love you back." Following a busy first year full of both successes and challenges, Dew said that's true not only of his adopted city but the seminary as well. Read More

  • Healed from COVID-19, 93-year-old Joyce Harrington praises God
    by Marilyn Stewart, posted Monday, April 20, 2020 (3 years ago)

    NEW ORLEANS -- "Hope for the best; plan for the worst" was the warning the hospice doctor gave Joyce Harrington, 93, at a New Orleans hospital when she was admitted with COVID-19 symptoms March 25.

    The doctor delivered the same dire warning over the phone to Harrington's daughters -- Rhonda Harrington Kelley, wife of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Emeritus Chuck Kelley, and Mitzi Woodson, whose husband is a medical doctor in Oklahoma. Read More

  • SBC seminary students getting much more than academic training
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Friday, April 17, 2020 (3 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist seminaries have stepped up to provide students support both financially and personally during the COVID-19 pandemic. Much of the aid seminaries have been able to offer students can be credited to the Cooperative Program's (CP) positive impact on operating budgets.

    Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS), said CP is essential to the mission of MBTS in ways far greater than simply being a revenue source. Read More

  • 'God will use this time,' seminary brothers say
    by Marilyn Stewart, posted Tuesday, April 07, 2020 (3 years ago)

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    NEW ORLEANS -- For Joe and Graham Waller -- brothers as well as New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary students -- moving to online classes during the stay-at-home mandate is bringing adjustments and lessons.

    Graham, blind since childhood, continues with his Leavell College classes online, listening to lectures in two classes and logging in for voice lessons via social media. Read More

  • Dew inaugurated as New Orleans Seminary's ninth president
    by Gary D. Myers and Marilyn Stewart, posted Friday, January 31, 2020 (3 years ago)

    Photo by Boyd Guy
    NEW ORLEANS -- The inauguration of Jamie Dew, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) and Leavell College, reflected the tone that is the mark of his new presidency -- humility and service like Jesus.

    Since Dew's election June 5, 2019, his challenge to the seminary family and all who would join him is to take up the towel and the basin and follow Jesus' example of serving others. Read More