<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Southwestern Seminary Quick Takes</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/</link><description>Recent Quick Take headlines from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX</description><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>5/21/2013 9:33:22 PM</lastBuildDate><generator>SWBTS Feed Generator</generator><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Graphic artist wins award for Dead Sea Scrolls design</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=5387FBF7-BAAC-94F7-385F092F074A6FA1</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Aubri Duran, assistant director of graphic design in Southwestern’s office of communications, has been announced as the bronze winner for the entire south region in the Neenah Paperworks Contest. Duran, whose design was up against 34 other entries, earned the award for her Dead Sea Scrolls Scriptorium Soirée invitation package.</description><pubDate>Thu 28 Feb 13 11:58:21 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Professors, students present at scholarly meetings</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=F851D751-B5E4-6631-C368BD0BB763DC64</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Professors and students from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and the College at Southwestern are slated to present papers at the 2013 meetings of the Southwest Commission of Religious Studies (SWCRS) and the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) Southwest region in March.</description><pubDate>Tue 26 Feb 13 17:27:48 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Brother’s Keeper ministers to students through no-charge thrift shop</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=26A462A7-C55B-5C76-C0B06253637D9679</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – A Southwestern Gold Card can be just that—gold. With a seminary Gold Card—the card students and spouses receive in the student center after registering for classes—families can visit the Brother’s Keeper house and find clothing and household items they need for free.</description><pubDate>Fri 22 Feb 13 15:44:34 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Thousands flock to conclusion of Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=1146FF08-D55B-8CC0-5E814BD1EAD62558</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – The final stretch of the Dead Sea Scrolls &amp; the Bible exhibition at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary saw record numbers of visitors come to see the scrolls. In its final two and a half weeks, nearly 27,500 guests visited the exhibition, with more than 7,200 of them coming on the final weekend. </description><pubDate>Wed 23 Jan 13 09:57:21 CST</pubDate><author>Josh Owens</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Southwestern offers course credit at The Gospel Coalition</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=584AAF98-B557-6299-2D13E770B5193E85</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will offer a hybrid course in conjunction with The Gospel Coalition (TGC) next spring. The 2013 conference of TGC is scheduled for April 8-10 in Orlando, Fla.</description><pubDate>Sun 06 Jan 13 09:26:38 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Share the Gospel in season, out of season</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=273D06FA-FFA3-B45A-83B1AA5F700184A3</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – In the classic TV special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Linus reminds the rest of the Peanuts gang of the true meaning of Christmas by reciting the story of Christ’s birth from Luke 2.</description><pubDate>Wed 05 Dec 12 09:34:57 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Winter term offers life-changing, ministry-defining courses</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=CB16E67A-D4B2-A469-E1E04B3DC234D2EA</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – After ringing in the new year, what better way to kick off 2013 and sweep away the cobwebs from watching football and parades than with a week of solid teaching from Southwestern professors? During the Winter 2013 term, students can choose from 22 course offerings in departments across campus. </description><pubDate>Wed 28 Nov 12 08:56:36 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Church-Minister Relations office lives up to its name</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=CAC39261-E62A-73DB-B86AEA3D356538F4</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Finding ministers for churches and churches for ministers can often prove to be a delicate puzzle. Southwestern Seminary, however, takes some of the guesswork out of the game by offering the services of the Church-Minister Relations office to both churches in need of leadership and leaders looking for a place to serve.</description><pubDate>Wed 28 Nov 12 08:47:29 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Chili Cook-Off brings seminary together</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=35040E8F-9056-F803-6EA1BB614336E879</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – A slight chill in the air provided the perfect outdoor atmosphere for hayrides, hot chocolate and chili during the second annual SWBTS Chili Cook-Off, Nov. 9. The event sponsored by Tate Springs Baptist Church in Arlington and organized by the seminary’s student life office also featured bounce houses, hot dogs, drinks, door prizes, and live music.</description><pubDate>Thu 15 Nov 12 12:22:54 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>College Girls Ministry holds progressive dinner</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=3491A73E-B83F-F9A4-53148622AE73C5BE</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Leaders of the College Girls Ministry (CGM) and wives of College at Southwestern faculty hosted college ladies for a fall progressive dinner Nov. 2, where they filled up on a three-course Italian feast, hours of fellowship and truths from the Scriptures. </description><pubDate>Thu 15 Nov 12 12:10:24 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Longtime friend of Southwestern dies at 93</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=6AC2B8DA-CE08-90C6-B20F5EBD7B647F04</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Rose Billy Rankin, friend of Southwestern and active member of its Widows’ Might prayer ministry, died April 11, 2012, at the age of 93. Rankin is preceded in death by her husband Joe Dillard Rankin, two brothers and two sisters.</description><pubDate>Tue 06 Nov 12 14:48:35 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Conservative Resurgence history, plan, assessment covered in new booklet</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=66DD9E5D-B70E-3423-9D8B64B42BE879DF</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Students, faculty and staff received a new booklet before chapel, Oct. 16, detailing the Conservative Resurgence. The booklet, titled “The Southern Baptist Conservative Resurgence: The History, The Plan, The Assessment,” features three articles written by Southwestern President Paige Patterson.</description><pubDate>Thu 01 Nov 12 14:41:05 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Questions of Religion, Race, Politics raised at Grindstone</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=6668DCDB-9EE9-B848-104793B0C32CDD21</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Only two weeks before the climax of a presidential race between the first black President of the United States and a Mormon challenger, students and faculty members at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary raised questions about race, religion and American politics.</description><pubDate>Thu 01 Nov 12 14:28:20 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Marriage: Believers must vote consciences</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=655D37C6-E6B7-494E-19BD169D35D5E218</link><description>In the shifting tides of our culture, the question of the definition of marriage is front and center. When given the chance to choose, voters have overwhelmingly stated they are in favor of protecting the traditional view of marriage as one-man, one woman. Traditional marriage matters to the general populace. It should matter even more to Christians!</description><pubDate>Thu 01 Nov 12 13:59:06 CST</pubDate><author>John Mark Yeats</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Stovall honored, music school highlighted at Women’s Auxiliary Luncheon</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=2916309A-FD34-BB2E-0EE6A5CD5B7A68DE</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Over an autumn lunch of tomato basil soup and sourdough sandwiches, attendees of the Oct. 17 Women’s Auxiliary Luncheon gained a glimpse into the heart of Southwestern’s ever-expanding School of Church Music (SCM).</description><pubDate>Wed 31 Oct 12 09:53:33 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>High school day emphasizes need for firm faith before college</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=C49A3BE5-0F99-00B4-3CB649D5F6B7760E</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – When a group of about 80 students came to Southwestern for its annual High School Day, Oct. 18, they got a taste of college life at Southwestern as well as a sobering sip of reality. </description><pubDate>Mon 29 Oct 12 11:03:41 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Archaeological evidence points to Davidic kingdom</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=F832F0D5-A398-7A5C-16170B8479CE99CC</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Perched above the Valley of Elah, where David defeated Goliath, the ancient city of Khirbet Qeiyafa may provide evidence that refutes the recent claims of revisionist scholars who deny the existence of the biblical kingdom of David.</description><pubDate>Thu 25 Oct 12 11:47:54 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Taylor explores Paul’s perspective on work</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=653E405C-DD09-03D7-A57B36F444FC6B26</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – New Testament scholar John Taylor explored how the Apostle Paul’s perspective on work can inform Christians in an age of battles and arguments stirred up by disagreements about this subject.</description><pubDate>Wed 17 Oct 12 15:59:57 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>‘See You at the Pole’ should promote yearlong ministry</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=6519CD53-F469-3CBE-F8BBBA7449679481</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – In the weeks following the Sept. 26 “See You at the Pole,” leaders have called youth to share the Gospel and pray for spiritual awakening on school campuses all year long. Pursuing the same end, students at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary are learning how to equip youth in their churches to make a yearlong impact on schools throughout the nation.</description><pubDate>Wed 17 Oct 12 15:55:58 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Patterson throws out first pitch at Rangers game</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=2D389B08-C665-F739-5DDC6B0D24D3B7AE</link><description>Southwestern Seminary President Paige Patterson threw out the ceremonial first pitch, Sept. 28, before the Texas Rangers played the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the final series of the regular season. The seminary’s Dead Sea Scrolls &amp; the Bible exhibition also sponsored the post-game fireworks show. </description><pubDate>Thu 11 Oct 12 14:34:56 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Professors take biblical counseling class on the road</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=2D14650B-B6EE-E60B-AE3ECCC319C85482</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) –Counseling professors John Babler and David Penley offer a seven-session certification in biblical counseling each fall and spring at Southwestern’s Fort Worth campus, where they teach candidates the need for, purpose of and how-to’s of biblical counseling. In the last several years, the duo has broadened that training to include sessions at churches as far away as Philadelphia. </description><pubDate>Thu 11 Oct 12 14:30:59 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Egyptologist: Location of Mt. Sinai does not matter</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=142A18CC-BBC5-89FC-CBD4EB2F60139F0C</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Egyptologist James Hoffmeier examined the attempt to pinpoint the location of Mt. Sinai, where God revealed His glory to Moses and inscribed the 10 Commandments, during the Joan &amp; Andy Horner Lecture Series at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Sept. 18.</description><pubDate>Wed 26 Sep 12 11:24:31 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Women find friends, fellowship at Chocolate Connection</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=E5B6A94F-B3D3-BF3B-299AE07613C2F502</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Chocolate-covered strawberries and conversation-laced fellowship drew 160 Southwestern women to the second annual Chocolate Connection gathering at the Horner Homemaking House, Sept. 13—a gathering that woman after woman attending the event said was exactly what she needed.</description><pubDate>Tue 25 Sep 12 13:45:35 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Widows see answer to prayer at Widows’ Might Conference</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=DDF538CD-9689-8B2E-5DC6EC6180C7E197</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – The principle mission of the Widows’ Might ministry is prayer, and at the group’s Sept. 8 conference, nearly 70 widows had the chance to hear directly from someone who had been the focus of their prayers for months.</description><pubDate>Tue 25 Sep 12 10:08:43 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Voice instructor to receive Mississippi College Distinguished Alumnae Award</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=DD97156D-CD61-FAF1-DE5A22918B3CE626</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Carol Aultman, a longtime adjunct voice instructor in the School of Church Music at Southwestern Seminary, will be honored as a Department of Music Distinguished Alumnae of the Year for 2012 by her alma mater Mississippi College, Oct. 26. Aultman will receive the award at the annual Homecoming Awards Dinner in the student center at Mississippi College, a Christian university in Clinton, Miss. </description><pubDate>Tue 25 Sep 12 09:58:26 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>New Steinway &amp; Sons piano selected for Reynolds Auditorium</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=1B38C953-01E0-2B32-972AB11BCC38EB87</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – As the School of Church Music (SCM) approaches its centennial anniversary in 2015, it also looks ahead to prepare for its next 100 years of equipping students in ministry through music by investing in instruments that will last just as long.</description><pubDate>Fri 21 Sep 12 15:23:16 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>40/40 Prayer Vigil for presidential election slated to begin Sept. 26</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=11ED0847-9592-47D6-025EB843FC793997</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – In preparation for the upcoming presidential election, the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission (ERLC) and the North American Mission Board (NAMB) have teamed up to sponsor a 40/40 Prayer Vigil. The partnership hopes the vigil—designed to last 40 days and slated to begin Sept. 26—will encourage nationwide prayer for individual and national revival and for God’s hand of mercy on America and its leaders.</description><pubDate>Fri 21 Sep 12 11:03:19 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>New college professor hopes to help students defend faith, atheists find faith</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=DE19AA45-AB5D-81B0-78C6E474BC0515AA</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Keith Loftin, the newest addition to the College at Southwestern’s faculty, knows how to defend his faith and says he is ready to challenge his students to do the same.</description><pubDate>Thu 20 Sep 12 10:54:07 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>New, expanded Women’s Programs Suite opens in Price Hall</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=DDDDDD99-E744-FB33-1DE616296712F5D3</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – A new and improved suite for Women’s Programs opened in August to accommodate the growing presence the programs have at Southwestern. With the new suite, located just down and across the hall from the program’s former home in Price Hall, the number of Women’s Programs offices has doubled. </description><pubDate>Thu 20 Sep 12 10:47:35 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Trial Lawyer cross-examines contemporary archaeologists</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=DA83ED9F-095C-F431-83B2D5107B7DFCD9</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Trial lawyer Mark Lanier cross-examined contemporary archaeologists who have questioned the accuracy of the biblical account during the Joan &amp; Andy Horner Lecture Series at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Sept. 4.</description><pubDate>Mon 10 Sep 12 10:36:41 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Metochai follows Titus 2 model</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=180C5CE9-DB9C-9BE9-7457609BF584F529</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Metochai, a campus organization for  student wives and faculty wife mentors, kicked off the semester Aug. 30 with more than 100 women in attendance and a record-setting 72 children in the Naylor Children’s Center childcare program. Amid the hustle and bustle of women reuniting with friends they had not seen all summer and meeting new friends who have just arrived on campus, Metochai leaders continued to bring in additional seating to accommodate the large crowd.</description><pubDate>Thu 06 Sep 12 15:58:45 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Southwestern offers course at ETS annual meeting</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=1800F6F7-0769-4F3D-303F359450CC8BA1</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary will offer college and seminary students a unique hybrid course in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nov. 14-16. </description><pubDate>Thu 06 Sep 12 15:57:31 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Evangelism Professor, Roy Fish, soon to be released from hospital</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=E3E2F4C8-BBC9-5EDF-F7D132B354B97893</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Distinguished Professor of Evangelism Emeritus Roy Fish, who was admitted into the ICU of a local hospital on Wednesday, has responded well to medical treatments and expects to be released soon. Matt Queen, assistant professor of evangelism at Southwestern, spoke with the family on Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed 05 Sep 12 15:40:09 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Southwestern Seminary President to throw out first pitch at Rangers game</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=AE72F77D-A070-7FB0-03D34B04C6951292</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Paige Patterson will throw out the ceremonial first pitch, Sept. 28, before the Texas Rangers play the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the final series of the regular season. The seminary is also sponsoring the post-game fireworks show. More information about purchasing tickets to the game can be found at texas.rangers.mlb.com.</description><pubDate>Mon 20 Aug 12 16:50:06 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Forbes names three Southwestern cities among ‘coolest’ in America</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=A5D9A059-9298-7271-79F82F487778DABA</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – In a month where Texas meteorologists stand beside life-sized five-day forecasts of temperatures hitting and exceeding the 100 degree mark, Forbes Magazine named three Southwestern Seminary cities among its Top 20 Coolest Cities in America, July 26. By “cool,” however, Forbes means a city that promises to be an exciting and fashionably attractive place to live.</description><pubDate>Tue 31 Jul 12 15:35:18 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>New tuition structure for School of Church Music graduate classes</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=5ACFA131-067C-A1DC-95A0E82CC09B083A</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Students taking master’s classes in Southwestern’s School of Church Music will see a new tuition structure beginning this fall. Trustees approved tuition increases for all master’s and bachelor’s programs at the seminary during their spring meeting, including a separate hourly rate for master’s-level music courses. Tuition for music classes in the College at Southwestern will remain the same as other undergraduate courses.</description><pubDate>Fri 15 Jun 12 10:49:42 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Artist in Residence Kurt Sprenger to perform, teach in Tokyo</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=75E5C394-9C90-00DF-6CA3497DC4CE5120</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Artist in Residence, Kurt Sprenger, will travel to Japan May 17 to perform recitals in Tokyo and to teach masters violin classes at Tokyo Baptist Church. Sprenger said the recitals are a continuation of tsunami relief efforts he participated in, in the states.</description><pubDate>Fri 11 May 12 22:01:47 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Women’s Auxiliary hosts four teas across Texas</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=8E0DBD2B-ED8D-9C6F-5C3814D7A94AE9DD</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) –Little girls don’t have to be taught to dress up in their mother’s pearls and high heels. No one has to show them how to set a Fisher-Price table with a Toys-R-Us tea set and plastic scones, and no one has to teach them to speak daintily and cordially to the stuffed animals and dolls attending the tea. Yet, somewhere between age 3 and 33, a modern and largely egalitarian society has a way of roughing up those soft edges and coaxing women to brush off those graceful tendencies. </description><pubDate>Wed 02 May 12 10:40:06 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Moon turned blood-red on Good Friday, A.D. 33, apologist says</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=5599D27D-0714-5112-6104E510D96497FA</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – According to apologist Peter Williams, Christ hung on the cross on Friday, April 3, A.D. 33—the day of a lunar eclipse in Jerusalem’s skies that turned the moon blood-red.</description><pubDate>Thu 26 Apr 12 09:02:55 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>First student preacher in new chapel</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=55830D04-FE08-7D70-D93B6C71A2959BFD</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Master of Theology student Preston Atwood urged students and faculty to boast only in the Lord during a chapel service at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, April 19. Selected to speak during the seminary’s Student Preaching Day, Atwood is the first student to proclaim God’s Word from the pulpit of the seminary’s new MacGorman Chapel and Performing Arts Center.</description><pubDate>Thu 26 Apr 12 09:00:26 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Students prepare to sing the Gospel in South Korea, Malaysia</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=5576B4EE-B1A0-55FD-0107AAFAB5B6073C</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – The Southwestern Chamber Chorale presented the Gospel in song at the Music for Missions concert, April 12, telling the story of salvation from the beginning of the Word in John 1:1 to His redemptive work on the cross in John 3:16. The 10 students in the chorale will leave May 13 to share the same message in South Korea and Malaysia during a 24-day mission trip.</description><pubDate>Thu 26 Apr 12 08:59:05 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>13 women graduate in certificate programs</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=002C1C83-CCBF-E0D9-F12DF91F1C6F6233</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Southwestern granted 11 women the Certificate in Education and Ministry and one woman the Leadership Certificate in Women’s Ministry during chapel, April 19. One student at the seminary’s Houston campus also earned a Leadership Certificate in Women’s Ministry, which she received April 24.</description><pubDate>Tue 24 Apr 12 17:14:03 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>'Southwestern News' gives glimpse of DSS exhibition</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=930A183E-A31D-2743-63CF286A741462B1</link><description>The spring issue of Southwestern News magazine presents a sneak peak into the upcoming Dead Sea Scrolls &amp; the Bible exhibition as well as articles explaining the historical background of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery, their significance to biblical studies, and the seminary’s research on its own scroll fragments. The Dead Sea Scrolls &amp; the Bible exhibition, which will be housed in MacGorman Chapel, opens July 2, 2012 and will run through January 2013.</description><pubDate>Thu 12 Apr 12 15:47:32 CST</pubDate><author>Keith Collier</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Dressed for Service mentors outfit 70 women for ministry</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=921C72C2-A4D6-407A-A0454799AFE08577</link><description>Seventy women received the blessings of Southwestern’s Dressed for Service ministry this spring in Fort Worth and Houston, each shopping with a Women’s Auxiliary (WA) mentor, who helped her select an outfit suitable for serving in ministry. </description><pubDate>Thu 12 Apr 12 15:21:35 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>New graduate-level homemaking concentration launches this fall</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=91F38844-DE78-0D30-742C82C6BE4E4030</link><description>Beginning fall 2012, students will have yet another option in the Master of Arts in Christian Education degree as Southwestern’s Women’s Programs introduces a new concentration in homemaking. Previously, only the College at Southwestern offered such a concentration, but with faculty additions and the administration’s approval, master’s students will now have a comparable option to consider in the graduate program. </description><pubDate>Thu 12 Apr 12 15:17:07 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Children hunt for eggs, hear of Christ's sacrifice at Eggstravaganza</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=912728D0-0652-CA60-135246195D105C08</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Pecan Manor became a picture of spring during Eggstravaganza March 24, as more than 100 children hunted, spotted and found thousands of Easter eggs peppering the lawn. Assistant Professor of Evangelism Matt Queen kicked off the event by gathering all of the children near him next to the prayer garden and telling the story of God's creation, man's sin and God's redemption through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.</description><pubDate>Wed 28 Mar 12 17:00:02 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Changes to full-time status, language requirements to benefit students</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=90E54650-06E0-9340-8BD857C2CBDD8E17</link><description>FORT WORTH, Texas (SWBTS) – Southwestern has adjusted requirements for full-time status for all students and language requirements for Master of Divinity students, both of which will soon affect class registration. Students received an email from the registrar’s office March 24 explaining the changes to the 2012-13 academic catalog.</description><pubDate>Wed 28 Mar 12 16:52:50 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Nigerian student takes Gospel to 'every nook and cranny'</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=515C5454-A82D-AB9A-C95153A6FB67FF91</link><description>Nigerian student Paul Oluleye desires to spread the joyous news of Christ “to every nook and cranny of the world.”

Paul remembers vividly his own baptism, when he identified with the death and resurrection of Christ and joined the church after being saved at age 11. The congregation sang, “Oh happy day, Oh happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away!”—expressing the message of Paul’s name in the Yoruba language: Olukayode, “God brings joy.” </description><pubDate>Thu 22 Mar 12 11:57:37 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Yarbrough calls for courageous biblical fidelity</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=5146898B-E065-F504-A94425DB9AAE18D2</link><description>New Testament scholar Robert Yarbrough challenged students at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary to stand firm in believing the Bible, even amid the various challenges to biblical faith in the 21st-century. Yarbrough reflected on the “Challenge of Believing the Bible” during the three-part Drumwright Lectures at Southwestern Seminary, March 2-3. </description><pubDate>Thu 22 Mar 12 11:55:14 CST</pubDate><author>Benjamin Hawkins</author><category>Quick Take</category></item><item><title>Mrs. Patterson underscores motherhood at  UN Commission on the Status of Women</title><link>http://www.swbts.edu/campusNews/story.cfm?id=511B66A1-FBF0-78B0-5CF9B578DB4E9843</link><description>Dorothy Patterson, wife of President Paige Patterson and professor of theology in women’s studies at Southwestern Seminary, underscored the importance of motherhood at a parallel session of the United Nations’ (UN) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held March 6 in New York.</description><pubDate>Thu 22 Mar 12 11:50:31 CST</pubDate><author>Sharayah Colter</author><category>Quick Take</category></item></channel></rss>