Pinson to deliver Maston Lectures at Hardin-Simmons University

Bill Pinson, executive director emeritus of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and a student and colleague of pioneering Baptist ethicist T.B. Maston, will speak at the lecture series named in Maston’s honor at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary in Abilene.

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Bill Pinson, executive director emeritus of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and a student and colleague of pioneering Baptist ethicist T.B. Maston, will speak at the lecture series named in Maston’s honor at Hardin-Simmons University’s Logsdon Seminary in Abilene.

“T.B. Maston: An ethical life, an ethical teacher” is the theme of the April 11-12 event on the Hardin-Simmons campus.

Pinson will deliver the first lecture at 7 p.m., April 11, in the Logsdon Chapel and the second at 9:30 a.m., April 12, in Hardin-Simmons University’s Behrens Auditorium during the weekly university chapel service. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

Pinson served from 1983 to 2000 as executive director of the BGCT Executive Board, the longest tenure of anyone in that position.

Pinson, who completed his undergraduate degree at the University of North Texas and did graduate studies at the University of Edinburgh, earned his doctorate in Christian ethics at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary under Maston’s direction. He served as a professor of ethics at the seminary from 1963 to 1975. He later was pastor of First Baptist Church in Wichita Falls and president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.

In conjunction with the Maston Lectures, an auxiliary workshop on “Ministerial Ethics: Formation and Application” will be offered at 1 p.m., April 11, in the Logsdon Chapel. Suzii Paynter, director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, and Phil Christopher, pastor of First Baptist Church in Abilene, will lead the workshop, sponsored by the Texas Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.


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