Samford University is a private Christian university in Homewood,Alabama. It was founded in 1841 as Howard College by Baptists. In the fall of 2024,the university enrolled 6,101 students from 45 states,1 U.S. territory,and 16 countries.
St. Stephen's University is a graduate studies university with an emphasis on theology,peace and reconciliation located in the town of St. Stephen,New Brunswick,Canada that offers mostly hybrid-distance master's degrees and graduate certificates. "The Mission of St. Stephen's University is to prepare people,through academic,personal,and spiritual development,for a life of justice,beauty,and compassion,enabling a humble,creative engagement with their world."
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in New Orleans,Louisiana. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Missions and evangelism are core focuses of the seminary.
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Wake Forest,North Carolina. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.It was created in 1950 to meet a need in the SBC's East Coast region. It was voted into existence on May 19,1950,at the SBC annual meeting and began offering classes in the fall of 1951 on the original campus of Wake Forest University in Wake Forest,North Carolina. The undergraduate program is called The College at Southeastern. The current president is Daniel L. Akin.
The Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) is a consortium of five predominantly African-American denominational Christian seminaries in Atlanta,Georgia,operating together as a professional graduate school of theology. It is the largest free-standing African-American theological school in the United States.
Noble Leslie DeVotie was a Baptist minister,Confederate chaplain,and the lead founder of Sigma Alpha Epsilon,a national fraternity.
The Rev. Dr. Solomon Adeniyi Babalola was a Nigerian Baptist pastor who lived and served in Nigeria,Ghana,Canada,and the United States. Born in Oke-Ila Orangun,Nigeria,he graduated from his initial pastoral training in December 1949 from the three-year theology course of the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary,Ogbomosho. He is reputed to be one of the two youngest Nigerian nationals ever recruited into the ministry by American missionaries,during a late-1940s drive led by Seminary President Dr. J.C. Pool,assisted by indigenous pastors. Babalola was consecrated as a Baptist trained pastor at the age of 20.
Ergun Michael Caner is a Swedish-American academic,author,and Baptist minister,who became well known for his book,co-authored with his brother,on Islam and his claims that he was a devout Muslim trained as a terrorist. He emigrated to the United States at age four and claimed to have converted to Protestantism in the early 1980s.
William Bullein Johnson was an American Baptist minister,one of the founders of the South Carolina State Baptist Convention in 1821,and later was the first president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1845 to 1851. Johnson is also the founder of Johnson Female Seminary,later renamed Johnson University,in 1848,the predecessor to Anderson University.
Craig Alan Blaising is the former executive vice president and provost of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Blaising earned a Doctor of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Aberdeen,Scotland,a Master of Theology Dallas Theological Seminary,and a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a recognized authority in patristic studies and eschatology and is one of the primary proponents of "progressive dispensationalism."
J. Lee Hill Jr.,was the first Missioner,now Canon,for Racial Justice and Healing for The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia,appointed by the XIV Bishop of Virginia. He has served in ministry since 1999,and is an ordained minister with recognized standing in the Alliance of Baptists and the United Church of Christ.
Dondi Enos Costin is an American academic,Baptist minister,and former major general in the United States Air Force. He has led the United States Air Force Chaplain Corps and served as Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force from 2015 to 2018. He retired effective September 1,2018,and served as president of Charleston Southern University until June 30,2023. On March 31,2023,he was named president of Liberty University in Lynchburg,Virginia.
Emilie Maureen Townes is an American Christian social ethicist and theologian. She was Dean,E. Rhodes,and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Townes was the first African-American woman to be elected president of the American Academy of Religion in 2008. She also served as the president of the Society for the Study of Black Religion from 2012–2016.
J. Bradley Creed is an American theologian,ordained minister,and academic administrator,currently serving as the fifth president of Campbell University. He took office on July 1,2015,succeeding Jerry M. Wallace.
Billy Jim Leonard is an American historian of religion,Baptist pastor,teacher and dean.
Graham Joseph Hill OAM is an Australian theologian who is a former associate professor of the University of Divinity. Since 2024,he works as a mission catalyst for the Uniting Church in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and a research associate with the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton,Massachusetts,US. Hill is the author or editor of 15 theological books. His research focuses on World Christianity but he is also known for his work on biblical egalitarianism and women theologians of global Christianity. He has published in the areas of missiology,applied theology,Christian spirituality and global and ecumenical approaches to missional ecclesiology.
W. Randall Lolley (1931-2022) was an American Christian clergyman of the Baptist tradition. His principal contribution to religious and academic life was a 14-year presidency (1974-1988) of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in the town of Wake Forest,North Carolina. Lolley's leadership of the seminary—one of six owned by the Southern Baptist Convention—ended as a result of theological and political strife within the denomination.
