Dr. E. Frank Tupper Jr.

Dr. Frank Tupper

A friend sent a news clipping last week that brought news of the passing of a mentor. Dr. E. Frank Tupper was one of my professors while I was a student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. Dr. Tupper's wife died in 1983. I enrolled at Southern in the fall of 1988. Our lives crossed paths at a time when his life was challenged by his personal loss and during a time when the seminary we both loved was living in the soup of the SBC turmoil. ...

It was my privilege and honor to have Frank Tupper, Jr. as my theology professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary during the time of his wife's illness and death. His teaching was not of a man who taught from a "throne of pious indifference" but from a husband and father who was who was experiencing life with the assurance that..."God always does the most God can do." As the providence of God would have it, I had the opportunity to share life with his daughter, Michelle, at a...