A Letter From the Dean

Beloved Truett Family,

I first heard of the dream that is Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary while I was living, studying, and ministering in Glasgow, Scotland in the early 1990s. At that time, I remember wondering to myself if it might ever be possible for me to be a part of such an innovative, vibrant community of faith and learning. I could have hardly imagined then that some thirty years later I would have been privileged to serve at Truett Seminary for over twenty of the thirty years our school has existed and for nearly ten as Truett’s fifth dean.

Even as any number of you have been engaged with Truett longer than I, others of you are comparatively new to our community. Whether an “old timer” or a “newcomer,” you are wanted, welcomed, and needed. Whether you are a current student, graduate, faculty, staff, board member, donor, and/or prayer partner, we are grateful for your involvement and engagement. You are a vital, integral part of us!

In this special 30th anniversary edition of The Cord, I hope that you will see yourself. While it is impossible to feature all who have enabled and empowered Truett to be who we are becoming, may this sampling be a testimony of what the LORD has done and will do in and by and for and through the George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University.  

Please join heart and hand with us in celebrating the thirtieth year of our school! Please be or become engaged by reaching out to us, visiting us, recommending us, praying for us, pulling for us, and giving to us. In institutional terms, thirty years is but a drop in the bucket. Those of us who are blessed beyond measure to serve and to steward our Seminary are committed to doing all that we can to the best of our ability so that Truett might go from strength to strength as an orthodox, evangelical, multi-denominational school in the historic Baptist tradition embedded into an R-1 Christian institution.

Gratefully, hopefully, and devotedly yours,

Todd D. Still, PhD
Charles J. and Eleanor McLerran DeLancey Dean
William M. Hinson Professor of Christian Scriptures