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Alumni e-newsletter on its way with important info for BSK graduates
The first BSK alumni e-newsletter has been sent out to all BSK alumni! This e-newsletter contains information about updating your contact information so that we can better reach you and also has links to listen to BSK alumni podcasts recorded this summer at CBF...
When Floodwaters Wash Away… a Pastoral Prayer
Loving God, you desire for us the gift of connection. Your creation was not complete until you had imagined for us the mutual blessing of human community, and we struggle to thrive outside of that community still. When we pray, we weave our hopes and dreams for others...
BSK student and NBCA leader to preach in chapel
Join us on Wednesday, October 2, at 10 AM (Eastern Time) as Rev. Shelton Dixon preaches in BSK Chapel. Rev. Dixon's sermon is entitled, "Looking Up When Life Is Trying to Bring You Down" and he will be preaching on Psalm 121:1-2. Rev. Dixon is a Cosby Scholar at BSK...
Students represent BSK at denominational gatherings
As BSK grows and expands, recruitment and partnership efforts have expanded, as well. The Seminary now partners with multiple denominational groups. As each of these groups gather annually for meetings, BSK students serving in churches within these areas are able to...
BSK sponsors Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists annual lecture
On Monday, September 16, in Memorial Church at Harvard, the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists welcomed Rev. Dr. Brandon Crowley for their 2024 Annual Lecture. BSK was a proud sponsor of this event! Dr. Crowley has recently published Queering Black...
BSK Director of Institutional Design to lead Community Prayers
Please join us for BSK Community Prayers at 10 AM (Eastern Time), this Wednesday, September 18 via Zoom. Dr. David Adams, Director of Institutional Design, will be leading. For Zoom information, click here.
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WFPL interviews Brogdon ahead of Festival of Faiths
Listen to NPR station WFPL interview Dr. Lewis Brogdon regarding the upcoming Festival of Faiths (Nov 18-20, 2021), with the theme, "Sacred Change: Essential Conversations on Faith and Race.” (Festival of Faiths). “We’re really in a period of reckoning,” commented Dr....
Cassady makes first in-person BSK visit to Virginia
Dr. David Cassady is traveling to Virginia for BSK's first in-person visit to the state since BSK was chosen as partners of CBF VA. Dr. Cassady's trip will include visits to several CBF VA churches including River Road Church and Glen Allen Baptist Church. CBF VA...
CBF Virginia makes partnership gift to BSK
Baptist Seminary of Kentucky has received its first gift from the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia’s Theological Education Fund. The $20,000 gift will be used to provide scholarships for Virginia students and strengthen BSK’s outreach in the...
Justin Sizemore leads weekly Community Prayers session
Rev. Justin Sizemore, Minister to Families with Youth at Calvary Baptist Church in Lexington, KY, will be leading Community Prayers this Wednesday, November 10 at 10 AM on Zoom. Calvary Baptist Church is a great partner to BSK and is actually where the Seminary began!...
Dr. Mikael Broadway preaching in Chapel
Dr. Mikael Broadway, Professor of Theology and Ethics at Shaw University Divinity School, will be preaching in Chapel tomorrow, Wednesday, November 3 at 10 AM. Chapel is held monthly on Zoom with Community Prayers being help each week in between. For more information...
Ron Oliver speaks to “Well-informed care” for chaplains
"My prolonged CPE training (16 units; 1987-1995…clearly I was on the long trail) had a very particular focus to what I will broadly call research. The overwhelming focus of that journey was the understanding and integration of self which in turn guided the care I...
BSK student Jordan Conley begins new ministry experiences
Baptist Seminary of Kentucky student Jordan Conley has been called as interim minister to students and young adults at Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, effective Oct. 31. Jordan, a native of Knott County in Eastern Kentucky, now lives in Louisville...
Tickets now available for purchase for Brogdon’s Festival of Faiths session
Louisville's Festival of Faiths, scheduled for November 18-20, will feature a session led by BSK's Dr. Lewis Brogdon. This session is entitled, "Black Faith’s Encounter with Black Trauma, Pain and Nihilism" and will take place on Friday morning, November 19, at 10 AM....
BSK class that studies how trauma interacts with theology to lead weekly Community Prayers session
BSK's "Trauma, Theology, and Pastoral Practice" class will be leading our weekly Community Prayers session that is held each Wednesday at 10 AM, EST via Zoom. This class is comprised of students as well as many alumni who audit the class. The class is co-taught by...
“When it feels like there’s not enough,” Cassady preaching at Buechel Park Baptist Church
This Sunday, October 24, BSK president, David Cassady, will be preaching at Buechel Park Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. His sermon, entitled, "When it feels like there’s not enough" will be based on Exodus 16:1-4 and 13-18 and John 6:1-14. Dr. Cassady served...
Professor of pastoral care leads weekly Community Prayers
Dr. Steve Ivy, BSK's Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Care, will lead Community Prayers via Zoom on Wednesday at 10 AM, EST. BSK's Community Prayers are held each Wednesday morning at 10 AM, with a chapel service once a month also on Zoom. If you would like to...
The Delta variant is raging in Eastern Kentucky because of historic injustices
"It is time for the church to see Jesus as a coal miner, struggling to carry the heavy cross up Golgotha’s hill as the coal dust clings to his lungs. It is time that the church join with Appalachians seeking to be agents of change in the mountains. It is time that the...
Noted author tells BSK forum white supremacy permeates U.S. culture
The issue of white supremacy in the United States is not confined to people of the past who spewed racial hatred, researcher and author Robert P. Jones told a BSK forum. “When most white people hear the word white supremacy, they immediately conjure up a kind of...
“Learning From History,” Levens writes for Word&Way
Dr. Laura Levens has contributed to the to the public discourse on Critical Race Theory and the purpose of studying history. "Furthermore, when Christian leaders prioritize and isolate the individual person as the only measure by which to count salvation and describe...
BSK welcomes LPTS’ Dr. Kathryn House to Chapel
Rev. Dr. Kathryn House, Visiting Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, will be preaching in BSK's virtual chapel on Wednesday, October 13 at 10 AM, EST. To learn more about Dr. House, click here. To find Zoom...
BSK postpones Rowatt celebration due to Covid-19
Baptist Seminary of Kentucky has postponed an October worship service that had been planned to give thanks for the ministry of Wade Rowatt, a longtime professor of pastoral care and counseling, and his wife, Jodi, his partner in ministry. The service of blessing and...
“God’s Calling in the Life of Ann Hasseltine Judson” Levens teaches Sunday school series at First Presbyterian Church
Dr. Laura Levens, Assistant Professor of Christian Mission at BSK, will be teaching a Sunday morning adult class at First Presbyterian Church during the month of October. The study will be four Sundays: October 3, 17, 24, 31, with a break taken on the Sunday of fall...
Kevin Adams leads BSK Community Prayers
BSK Student Kevin Adams is one of our amazing Cosby Scholars! Kevin also serves as Interim Minister of Congregational Care at Buechel Park Baptist Church, Louisville, KY. Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, September 29, at 10 AM, EST via Zoom for this special time of...
Register now for Louisville’s Festival of Faiths
Louisville's annual Festival of Faiths will be held November 18-20 at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts. BSK will play a major role in this conference that will focus on racism. This event, which is sponsored by the Center for Interfaith Relations, is titled...
Annual monastic retreat to reconvene in 2022
We are glad to report the return of Baptist Seminary of Kentucky’s annual retreat to St. Meinrad Archabbey (in Indiana), January 4-6, 2022. There are prayers each day – early morning, again before breakfast, before lunch, before supper, and before bed. There is a lot...