{"id":98,"date":"2007-10-01T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/01\/truett-seminary-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T19:29:43","slug":"truett-seminary-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/10\/truett-seminary-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Truett Seminary on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/truett-graduation.jpg\" alt=\"Truett graduation\" align=\"right\" \/>As the nation&#8217;s leading Baptist university, it&#8217;s only fitting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/truett\/\">a Baylor seminary<\/a> would be producing tomorrow&#8217;s pastors.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2007\/10\/01\/10012007wacbuseminary.html\">a nice article in the Waco Trib<\/a>, Truett Seminary&#8217;s enrollment this fall is at an all-time high of 402 students. That&#8217;s a 6.6% increase from last year &#8212; more than five times the national average for seminary growth. And thanks to Baylor&#8217;s emphasis on involvement in the local church, a survey of Truett alumni showed that about 85% of Truett grads are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylormag.com\/story.php?story=006072\">currently in the ministry<\/a> &#8212; an unusually high percentage.<\/p>\n<p>Truett also is involved in bringing high-level speakers to campus like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/pr\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=47156\">Dr. Ben Witherington III<\/a>, one of the world&#8217;s leading evangelical New Testament scholars, who will deliver the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/truett\/index.php?id=22186\">Parchman Endowed Lectures<\/a> this week. (I hope to get over there for some of it; the entire program is free and open to the public.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylormag.com\/story.php?story=006071\">10 great years<\/a> (and counting), Truett. Sic \u2019em, seminary staff and students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the nation&#8217;s leading Baptist university, it&#8217;s only fitting that a Baylor seminary would be producing tomorrow&#8217;s pastors. According to a nice article in the Waco Trib, Truett Seminary&#8217;s enrollment this fall is at an all-time high of 402 students. That&#8217;s a 6.6% increase from last year &#8212; more than five times the national average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}