Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina, welcomed a large contingent of Baptists to an August 26 worship service in the seminary's Christ Chapel to open the academic year and to install minister Virginia C. Barfield as director for Baptist studies

Christian Century, Oct 5, 2004

* Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina, welcomed a large contingent of Baptists to an August 26 worship service in the seminary's Christ Chapel to open the academic year and to install minister Virginia C. Barfield as director for Baptist studies. Southern, one of eight seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, entered into an agreement in February with the South Carolina Fellowship of Cooperative Baptists to provide seminary education opportunities for Baptist students.

"I hope this program can provide a forum for Baptists of all types to study in an ecumenical setting and thereby realize that it is not what separates us but what unites us that is important," Barfield said.