Truett offers Pillars event for senior adults. Pillars: A Celebration of Seniors, the first conference and retreat for senior adults sponsored by Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary, will feature keynote speaker Grant Teaff, Baylor’s former head football coach, and workshops on missions, grandparenting, estate planning and overcoming anxiety in personal evangelism. “Affirming our Heritage” is the theme of the May 24-26 event in Waco. Featured speakers include Bill O’Brien, former executive vice president with the Foreign Mission Board and past president of the American Society of Missiology; Paul Powell, dean emeritus of Truett Theological Seminary; Alan Lefever, director of the Texas Baptist Historical Collection; and Cindy Wiles, executive director of Global Connection Partnership Network. Cost of the event is $49, which includes snacks, all meals on Tuesday and breakfast on Wednesday. For more information or to register, contact Angela Bailey at (254) 710-6080 or angela_bailey@baylor.edu.
Logsdon professor named to interfaith parliament’s board. Rob Sellers, Connally Professor of Missions and professor of missions ministry in Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon School of Theology, has been elected to the board of trustees of the Parliament of the World’s Religions. Twice a year, Sellers will attend trustee meetings in Chicago, where his duties will include helping to plan the next World Parliament Congress in 2014. “I am deeply committed to the work of interfaith relations, and I believe that relationship is crucial to one’s being an effective, respectful Christian witness in the world,” he said. Sellers serves locally, nationally and internationally on other interfaith organizations, including the Interfaith Relations Commission of the National Council of Churches and the Baptist-Muslim Relations Commission of the Baptist World Alliance.
Logsdon dean named HSU provost. Tommy Brisco has been named provost and chief academic officer at Hardin-Simmons University by HSU President Lanny Hall, effective June 1. Brisco has served as dean of Logsdon School of Theology and Logsdon Seminary on the HSU campus since 2003. He is an author, professor, minister and archeologist. He replaces former provost Bill Ellis who left Hardin-Simmons to become president of Howard Payne University last fall. Brisco is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University, and he earned his master’s degree and doctorate from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
DBU receives gift from Hillcrest Foundation. The Dallas-based Hillcrest Foundation has provided a $500,000 gift to Dallas Baptist University for construction of the Patty and Bo Pilgrim Chapel. The 80,000-square-foot structure opened last fall. The Hillcrest Foundation has given $3.3 million to DBU over the last 40 years. Gifts have helped in building the International Center, the Tom and Alicia Landry Welcome Center, the John G. Mahler Student Center and Spence Hall student dormitory.
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