FORT WORTH, Texas — Russell Hooper Dilday Jr., the sixth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, died on June 21 in Dallas. He was 92 years old. “Russell Dilday had just come to serve as president of Southwestern Seminary when I came to Southwestern as a student,” recalled David S. Dockery, current president of Southwestern Seminary. “As a student, I always appreciated his leadership for the seminary and his care

The Baptist Paper  NEW ORLEANS — Messengers to the 2023 SBC annual meeting in New Orleans adopted a total of nine resolutions during the business sessions on June 13 and June 14.  “Resolutions are an important part of what we do each and every year as a convention of churches,” said resolutions committee chair David Sons in introducing Part 1 of the committee’s report. “They give us a glimpse into

NEW ORLEANS — Messengers to the 2023 SBC annual meeting in New Orleans proposed more than 30 requests for the Committee on Order of Business to consider.  Of those, three were addressed during the two-day meeting, 19 were referred to SBC entities and one (a prayer for Jerusalem) was affirmed with a prayer from the podium. The rest were ruled out of order for various procedural reasons. The three items

NEW ORLEANS — Messengers to the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans took a first vote June 14 to amend the SBC constitution by adding that Southern Baptist churches affirm, appoint or employ “only men” as pastors and elders. Because any amendment to the SBC constitution requires a two-thirds vote at two consecutive SBC annual meetings to go into effect, the amendment will be voted on again