BSK Theological Seminary

02/09/2026

Join Dr. John Inscore Essick, Professor of Church History at BSK, for the Adult Spiritual Formation Mini Retreat happening at Calvary Baptist Church on September 19! Calvary was BSK's first home back in the early 2000's, and we're thankful for their continued support!

Check out more info about Dr. Inscore Essick's session on how storytelling impacts our faith below.

🗣️ “The Power of Story: Learning to Listen to and Tell Stories of Faith”

This year’s Adult Spiritual Formation Mini Retreat invites you to consider how storytelling is essential to faith by preserving tradition, shaping identity, and building community. We will welcome Dr. John Inscore Essick, pastor and BSK professor, as our plenary speaker.

Gather for a morning of learning, conversation, and perhaps new ideas or perspectives to consider. We have a wonderful line-up of workshops and workshop speakers who are excited to share. This event is FREE, with FREE childcare for birth thru 5th grade and FREE breakfast for everyone provided.

—> Register today and select your workshop classes here: https://onrealm.org/CalvaryBaptistC1710/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=ZmFmNjI4N2UtYTBiZC00ZDFjLWFjZWYtYjRhYTAxMjM5OGRi

🗓️ Saturday, September 19

⏰ 9AM-12PM with check-in and breakfast beginning at 8:30AM. Childcare drop off begins at 8:30AM as well.

📍Calvary Baptist Church - Enter thru the Rodes Avenue doors for check-in.

🖐🏼 Invite a friend, neighbor, co-worker or Sunday School friend to join you.

28/08/2026

Convocation Chapel formally marks the beginning of the new academic year. New students, faculty, and staff to the BSK community will be recognized, and we will hear a message from Rev. Mia McClain, Senior Pastor, Riverside Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.!

To learn more about Rev. McClain, or to access Zoom info, click the link below.

Join us this Wednesday, September 2, 10 AM, Eastern Time via Zoom.

15/08/2026

Thanks be to God for churches like Ridgewood Baptist Church for forming daring faith leaders!

We are so excited to welcome Chris and Chloe to BSK this fall in the Master of Divinity program.

10/08/2026

“I was drawn to the Associate Program Director for Leadership Tenders role because it resonates with my vocational calling to walk alongside chaplains and pastoral counselors through CBF’s endorsement process,” Wilson said. “After years of building, guiding and supporting this network, stepping into this position feels like a natural, Spirit-led extension of that calling. I am deeply enthusiastic about joining the Tending team and contributing to a ministry that is making lifelong theological education more accessible, equitable, and transformative for congregations across diverse traditions.”

Click the link below to learn more about Dr. Carrol Wilson's new role with BSK's Tending Initiative!

In her new role, Wilson will help develop and support a network of Leadership Tenders who will walk alongside congregations.

28/07/2026

As the summer winds down and we are gearing up for a new semester at BSK, we can’t help but reminisce on the amazing travels the BSK Community had these last two months! Whether it be Florida, Alabama, or D.C., BSK faculty, staff, students, alumni, trustees and friends gathered at 3 different denominational meetings this summer. We are so thankful for our amazing partners at Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Progressive National Baptist Convention, and Nbca Intl!

27/07/2026

"Vitoria brings a wealth of experience from hospitality management to her new role at the seminary. Her event planning and coordination experience will be vital to the Academic Office’s administration of various grants and subgrants with key seminary partners. Her management and technology experience will also be valuable to the Academic Office’s work of administering the seminary’s academic degree and certificate programs, as well as providing light technical support to faculty and students."

Please join us in welcoming Vitoria to the BSK staff in the comments below!

This role will support the seminary’s academic programs and provide administrative, technical, and operational support for students and faculty.

22/07/2026

The BSK community grieves with Dr. Rick Landon in the passing of his wife, Judy Kathryn Landon. Dr. Landon taught Spiritual Formation and Contextual Ministry at BSK for 18 years. For more information about arrangements, please click the link below.

Dr. Landon taught Spiritual Formation and Contextual Ministry at BSK for 18 years.

22/07/2026

While representing BSK at the Progressive National Baptist Convention Annual Session, Dr. Jaye Lynn Peabody Smith and Dr. Anthony Everett connected with Representative James E. Clyburn!

James E. Clyburn is the U.S. Congressman representing South Carolina’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and Chairman of the Democratic Faith Working Group. He previously served as Assistant Democratic Leader from 2011 to 2018 and 2023 to March 2024, and House Majority Whip from 2019 to 2022 and 2007 to 2010, making him the first African American to serve multiple terms as Majority Whip. A native son of South Carolina, Clyburn has represented the state’s Sixth Congressional District since 1993.

21/07/2026

BSK faculty and staff - Dr. Anthony Everett, Dr. Jaye Lynn Peabody Smith, and Rev. Maurice Herring - are representing BSK at the Progressive National Baptist Convention Annual Session this week in Washington D.C.! If you’re there, stop by the BSK booth and say hello!

14/07/2026

"Here is the part that gives me hope. Christianity has spent two thousand years insisting — against empire, against slavery, against industrial capitalism, against every system that wanted to price human beings by their output — that a person's worth is not a function of their productivity."

Read Dr. Cassady's article at the link below.

Read President Cassady's new