News about "B.H. Carroll Theological Seminary"

East Texas Baptist University and B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary mourn the passing of William A. “Budd” Smith, a founding faculty member of B. H. Carroll whose work in theological education helped establish the seminary in 2004.

Dr. Smith was among four educators who helped establish B. H. Carroll with a vision for making graduate theological education accessible to pastors and ministry leaders. The seminary was founded to equip men and women for Christian ministry while allowing them to continue serving in their local churches and communities.

B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary at ETBU hosted Dr. Holly Allen, retired Professor of Christian Ministries and Family Science at Lipscomb University, as the keynote speaker for the Frank W. and Pauline Patterson Lecture Series, held April 27–28 on the ETBU campus as part of the Seminary’s Spring 2026 Colloquy.

B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary, which will officially become a part of East Texas Baptist University in late 2024, is making a move from its offices in Irving to the location where it originally began—in downtown Arlington, Texas.

The seminary’s offices will occupy a floor of First Baptist Church’s Wade Building, a six-story office building adjacent to the church’s main campus. The move also means B. H. Carroll’s annual Ph.D. colloquies, graduations, and other conferences will be held on site, for the first time since it left the location for Irving in 2015.

The presidents of B. H. Carroll Theological Institute in Irving and East Texas Baptist University in Marshall announced Feb. 6 that the institutions’ boards have each approved resolutions authorizing an exclusive agreement to merge the administrative and academic operations of B. H. Carroll into ETBU.

A letter of intent, signed by B. H. Carroll President Gene Wilkes and ETBU President J. Blair Blackburn, sets forth the terms and conditions of the merger, as well as the timeline for its completion.