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Give to BSK today and double your gift’s impact
BSK’s Matching Gift Challenge is a wonderful opportunity to help BSK continue to grow its mission and expand its reach. A generous donor has agreed to match all gifts to BSK between now and December 31, up to $20,000. That means your gift of $50 will provide BSK $100...
“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....
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“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...
Inscore Essick leads Community Prayers
Dr. John Inscore Essick, BSK's Associate Professor of Church History and Director of the Rural Ministry Program at BSK, is leading this week's Community Prayers session. If you would like to join the BSK Community for this week’s Prayers session or view the schedule...
Erica Whitaker named associate director of BSK’s Institute for Black Church Studies
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville pastor who has been active in the city’s racial justice efforts has been named associate director of Baptist Seminary of Kentucky’s Institute for Black Church Studies. Erica Whitaker, pastor of Buechel Park Baptist Church since...
BSK student leads Community Prayers
BSK student Renee Edington began her studies at BSK in 2019. As an active participant in BSK Community Prayers and Chapel herself, Renee will now be leading this weeks session. If you would like to join the BSK Community for this week's Prayers session or view the...
BSK alumna overcomes reluctance and finds joy in small-town Baptist pastorate
While a student at BSK, Sabrina Smith experienced an epiphany by a small lake at Montreat Conference Center in North Carolina. Before arriving at Montreat’s Women’s Connection conference in 2017, she had been praying faithfully for direction in her life. Bearing some...
Q & A with Dalen Jackson, BSK’s academic dean
Dalen Jackson has been academic dean and professor of biblical studies at BSK since the seminary opened for classes in 2002. Previously, he held administrative and teaching roles at Truett-McConnell College and Judson College, and he has been a pastor, interim pastor,...
BSK convocation speaker cautions against too much self-assuredness in preaching
Preachers and teachers should approach their tasks “with an appropriate tentativeness” and avoid being “overly confident,” a Duke University Divinity School professor and administrator told Baptist Seminary of Kentucky’s fall convocation. In his Sept. 1 address, David...
Convocation kicks off a new semester of virtual chapel experiences
On Wednesday, September 1 at 10 AM, EST, the BSK Community will gather on Zoom for Convocation to begin the Fall 2021 semester. Following this special gathering, each week BSK will hold Community Prayers on Zoom, with a Chapel service once a month. This tradition...
BSK trustee offers “Pandemic Lessons”
BSK Board of Trustees member, Ron Oliver, has written an opinion piece for Good Fatih Media. Ron serves as System Vice-President, Mission & Outreach for Norton Healthcare in Louisville, Kentucky. Ron writes, "Ironically, I was so spent I didn’t know I needed...
BSK kicks off a new semester with highest enrollment in 15 years
BSK is excited to welcome 52 students to the classroom this semester, with courses kicking off on Monday, August 23. Enrollment has grown steadily over the last 4 years since BSK first partnered with Simmons College of Kentucky. In 2020, BSK was named the official...