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01 VOLUME 15 AUGUST 2016 A NEWS PUBLICATION OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FALL CHECKLIST GUIDE TO THE SEMESTER Every semester, Southern Seminary and Boyce College on campus students have the opportunity to attend one of Southern’s conferences for free. To redeem your fall scholarship, please visit Event Productions in HCC 204 to swipe your Shield Card. Scholarships will be available anytime on or after Aug. 15, 2016. Meals are not included. The scholarships are limited and are given on a first-come, first-serve basis. More information about these confer- ences is available at sbts.edu/events. For questions about conference scholarships please email [email protected] 2 TOWERS August 2016 towers.sbts.edu AUGUST 2016 10 PUBLISHER Sanchez on 1 Peter Steve Watters and persecution EDITOR SBTS professor and Texas S. Craig Sanders pastor Juan Sanchez discusses the message of COPY EDITOR 1 Peter for Christians in Annie Corser today’s society. NEWS WRITERS Andrew J.W. Smith Robert Chapman 20 Mackenzie Miller The Fuller Story CREATIVE DIRECTOR Learn the history of Fuller Eric Jimenez Hall, which is set to undergo renovation this winter. ART DIRECTOR Daniel Carroll 22 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Gabriel Reyes-Ordeix A new song of racial reconciliation PHOTOGRAPHER Emil Handke Boyce College’s new dean shares how his experi- CONTACT INFO ence as a missionary kid Phone (502) 897-4000 instilled in him a passion E-mail [email protected] for improving the church’s Web towers.sbts.edu response to racial injustice. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Fall Checklist: Guide to the semester 2825 Lexington Rd. 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And Son, and Holy Spirit, and accurate, timely, and an exciting change for new some evangelical scholars seek Christian fellowship POSTMASTER creative manner to Send address changes to and returning students but seem to have taken their cues amid our disagreements Towers, 2825 Lexington comes at a crucial moment on public discourse from which defies comparison the glory of God. Road, Louisville, KY 40280 in our nation’s history that social media by slandering with our divisive culture. towers.sbts.edu August 2016 TOWERS 3 REPORT Newslog SBC 2016: Gaines elected president, Mohler notes historic enrollment By David Roach and Andrew J.W. Smith THE ELECTION OF STEVE GAINES AS PRESIDENT on the a resolution concerning the Confederate battle flag In his report to SBC messengers, Southern third ballot and a historic repudiation of the Con- calling believers “to consider prayerfully whether Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said the federate battle flag were among the highlights of the to limit, or even more so, discontinue its display.” school’s record-setting enrollment testifies to Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June But former SBC President and SBTS alumnus an ideological paradox of the cultural revolution. 14-15 in St. Louis. James Merritt moved that the reference to the flag Although experts once said only seminaries that On the second ballot, neither Gaines, pastor of Bel- not being a racist symbol for some be removed and adopt a secularized message would survive, that levue Baptist Church, nor North Carolina pastor J.D. that the convention call believers to “discontinue has not been the case, Mohler said, pointing to the Greear obtained a majority. Greear withdrew his can- the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign fact that for the first time in its history Southern didacy and moved that the convention elect Gaines by of solidarity with the whole Body of Christ, includ- Seminary’s enrollment had exceeded 5,000 stu- acclamation, saying Southern Baptists “need to leave ing our African-American brothers and sisters.” dents in the 2015-2016 academic year. St. Louis united.” Messengers adopted Merritt’s amendment and the For a full recap of the SBC 2016 annual meeting, The Resolutions Committee originally proposed resolution by wide margins. visit bpnews.net. 4 TOWERS August 2016 towers.sbts.edu REPORT Russell Moore awarded SBTS alumnus of the year By Andrew J.W. Smith Bargas named VP of SBTS PRESIDENT R. Albert Mohler Jr. presented the Crawford joins 2016 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year award to hospitality services Russell Moore at the seminary’s June 15 alumni Boyce faculty By Andrew J.W. Smith luncheon during the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. By Annie Corser SOUTHERN SEMINARY HAS HIRED PETE BARGAS “Russ Moore has already made history and there is as the new vice president for hospitality services. much history still to be written. He has made South- A FINANCIAL EXPERT with more than a decade of expe- Bargas joins Southern after serving as associate ern Seminary proud in so many different ways,” said rience teaching business courses, Michael Crawford dean of student life at The Master’s College in Santa Mohler, who also presented Moore a commemorative has joined the Boyce College faculty to accommodate Clarita, California, for more than a decade, where plaque. “It is high time that we make this presentation the growth of the business administration program. he also earned his B.A. in 2005. He will be joined in and celebrate Russ Moore as Alumnus of the Year of “As a faculty member, Michael Crawford represents Louisville by his wife, Lauren. the institution very proud to claim him as our own.” the type of expertly-trained, theologically-informed, “We are thrilled to add Pete Bargas to the world- Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Lib- and missions-minded student we want our business class team at SBTS and Boyce,” said Dan Dumas, erty Commission of the SBC and SBTS Ph.D. graduate program to produce,” said Randy L. Stinson, senior senior vice president for institutional administration. (2002), also formerly served as professor of Christian vice president for academic administration and pro- “This is a critical post in the life of our institution and theology, dean of the School of Theology, and senior vost. “I look forward to putting Dr. Crawford before will take servant-leader to build on the foundation vice president for academic administration at South- our students in the classroom.” that has been laid. Pete is the man for the job. He joins ern Seminary. Crawford, associate professor of business admin- us as gospel-centered, well-prepared leader, and eager “This school didn’t just educate me,” Moore said. “I istration at Boyce, studied Information Systems and to lead the team to the next level.” look around this room, the best friends in the world Administration at Cedarville University and earned Bargas has also worked as a youth pastor and financial that we have, I look at students that I love. I look at his MBA in Finance and Strategy at the distinguished advisor, and earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree a place where, when we arrived home with our first Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State Uni- from Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, California. two children, there was a parking lot full of people versity. He also received a D.B.A. from Anderson “I have been extremely blessed with the opportu- waiting for us ... I can’t thank Southern Seminary University. He has also worked in areas of financial nity to serve in this capacity,” Bargas said. “Lauren enough for being our family.” budgeting, strategy, management and accounting for and I love hospitality and are looking forward to The more than 450 attendees of the luncheon also OSU and helped grow a start-up training firm into a practicing it both personally and professionally. I received a copy of the “President’s Report,” a publica- $20 million organization. am praying I can live out servant leadership through tion providing a summary of the 2015-16 academic year. each of my responsibilities.” towers.sbts.edu August 2016 TOWERS 5 REPORT Hunter to draw from pastoral experience as director of Boyce student life Denny Burk named CBMW president By Annie Corser By David Roach A SEASONED PASTOR with more than 30 years expe- rience serving in local churches will now step into BOYCE COLLEGE PROFESSOR DENNY BURK has “Churches find themselves facing questions the role of shepherding Boyce College students as the been elected president of the Council on Biblical about manhood and womanhood that were barely associate dean of student life.