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Join us virtually for All Saints Day Community Prayers session
Join us for BSK Community Prayers on Wednesday, October 30 at 10 AM Eastern Time on Zoom! In this Community Prayers session we will mark All Saints Day. Were excited to have Dr. Laura Levens leading us. Dr. Levens is the Associate Professor of Christian Mission at BSK...
BSK alumna endorsed as chaplain by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Rev. Renee Edington, a 2024 graduate of BSK, was recently endorsed by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship as a chaplain! Renee will be recognized this summer at CBF's annual General Assembly. Renee says, "I'm so thankful for the support of everyone at BSK during the...
Master of Arts in Ministry Studies Director travels to Louisiana to meet with inaugural capstone class
Dr. Laura Levens, BSK's Associate Professor of Christian Missions and Director of the Master of Arts in Ministry Studies (MAMS), traveled to Louisiana this fall to visit with several BSK students. These students will be taking the capstone course for the MAMS this...
BSK alumna leading Community Prayers
Join us for BSK Community Prayers on Wednesday, October 16 at 10AM (Eastern Time) on Zoom. We're thrilled to have Rev. Amanda Smith leading us! Rev. Smith is a BSK alumna and currently serves as the Transitional Pastor, Associate Pastor of Children and Spiritual...
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...
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“Racism-induced trauma creates hopelessness in Black communities, scholars say,” BSK featured at Louisville’s Festival of Faiths
"As he consults with Black congregations, Black church scholar Lewis Brogdon often advises them to prioritize adding a mental health professional to their staffs. That’s because Brogdon, director of the Institute for Black Church Studies at Baptist Seminary of...
Virtual “Lessons and Carols” service led by BSK Community as Advent season begins
Join us for our annual "Lessons and Carols" service this Wednesday, December 1 at 10 AM, EST on Zoom. As we begin the season of Advent, “Lessons & Carols,” a liturgy of prayer, scripture readings, and carols, will be led by many members of the BSK Community from...
Simmons College of Kentucky president says the wealth gap is what causes racial marginalization
BSK was a sponsor of Louisville's Festival of Faiths last week, along with Simmons College of Kentucky. Dr. Kevin Cosby, President of Simmons College of Kentucky, led in a session about how the wealth gap is what leads to racial marginalization. BSK's Pat Cole wrote...
Good Faith Media Podcast features Dr. Brogdon
Mitch Randall and Autumn Lockett with Good Faith Media interview Dr. Lewis Brogdon and Sarah Riggs Reed regarding the significance of the 2021 Festival of Faiths. This year's focus is: “Sacred Change: Essential Conversations on Faith and Race.” Listen to the episode...
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...