By Marilyn Stewart on Thursday, May 18, 2023

Summer is here and the academic year is winding down. While there has been much to celebrate this year, there is more to come. Celebration of Excellence—the final chapel service of the year—highlights student and faculty achievement and recognizes staff anniversaries. If you missed the article, you can read it here....

By Marilyn Stewart on Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Jamie Dew, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, shared with the 254 graduate candidates and their families gathered for graduation May 12 a question that keeps him up at night. Dew said graduation is a celebration but it is also one final moment for him as...

By Marilyn Stewart on Thursday, May 4, 2023

Outstanding student performance and faculty achievement were marked at the annual Celebration of Excellence service at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, May 2, in the last chapel service of the spring semester. Jamie Dew, president, told faculty and students that their work held lasting significance. “I’m proud of you...

By Marilyn Stewart on Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Recent brain research and neuroscience discoveries have pushed to the forefront the questions of what does it mean to be human and do humans have souls? The mind-body question was the focus of the What is a Human Person? A Conversation on Theological Anthropology conference at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary,...

By Marilyn Stewart on Monday, April 17, 2023

Wearing jeans and a tee-shirt reading “From the Parishes to All People,” Jamie Dew, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary president, welcomed SBC president Bart Barber as speaker in chapel for the NOBTS Serve Day, April 13, when students go out to serve and minister around the city. At least three professions...

By Marilyn Stewart on Monday, April 17, 2023

Two faculty additions by presidential appointment were announced at the April 11-12 trustee meeting of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, along with reports of God at work. Appointed were Don Wilton, recently retired senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, South Carolina, and W. Andrew “Ted” Williams, coming from his position...

By Marilyn Stewart on Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Paul Gregoire, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary registrar for 29 years, passed away today (March 21) after a brief battle with cancer. “Paul Gregoire was a faithful servant who embodied what we are about at NOBTS, servants who seek to be faithful to His calling,” said Jamie Dew, president. Dew shared...

By Marilyn Stewart on Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board president, joined with others at Missions Week at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, Feb. 28-March 2, in asking a question repeated often that week, “Why not you? Jamie Dew, NOBTS and Leavell College president, challenged listeners to consider the question before he introduced...