Two accounts from Luke 10 provided the text for Hershael York’s last chapel message Tuesday (April 14) in his role as the dean of the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
York, who will step down from the dean position after the spring semester, will continue to be on the faculty at Southern as professor of Christian preaching. In his chapel message, he used Luke 10 to explain the clarity Jesus gives to our confused priorities — to live with the priorities of Jesus.
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“It has been an incredible honor to serve the Lord and my colleagues in this role since 2018, but I am ready to return to being simply a professor,” York told Kentucky Today. “It has been an honor and the joy of my life to serve as the dean of the School of Theology — to reach a sense of completion of that task and hand it off to someone as capable and enthusiastic as Dr. Andrew Walker.”
After a year sabbatical for a writing project, he said he will return to teach at SBTS “for an undetermined length of time. I still have a delight in teaching and have a lot of doctoral students who I want to bring to completion with their degrees.”
York is one of the longest-serving of the 11 men — dating back to 1959 — who have served as Dean of the School of Theology.
He is pastor emeritus at Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort, where he served for 20 years, and is currently interim pastor of Crestwood Baptist Church.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Chip Hutcheson and originally published by Kentucky Today.
