The Future of Seminary: Training Tentmakers
This post is part of a Patheos symposium on the Future of Seminary Education. You can see all of my posts in this symposium here.At Pangea, Kurt makes good points about the massive debt that many...
View ArticleStop What You’re Doing and Read this Post on Christian Sex
This post is part of a Patheos symposium on the Future of Seminary Education. You can see all of my posts in this symposium here.Late last week, Tim Dalrymple published a doozy of a post, complaining...
View ArticleSeminaries: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
This post is part of a Patheos symposium on the Future of Seminary Education. You can see all of my posts in this symposium here.There’s lots of good stuff being written in the Patheos symposium on...
View ArticleThe Future of Seminary: Free?
This post is part of a Patheos symposium on the Future of Seminary Education. You can see all of my posts in this symposium here.Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary made news last week, when...
View ArticleThe Future of Seminary: Wrap-Up
This post is part of a Patheos symposium on the Future of Seminary Education. You can see all of my posts in this symposium here.There’s a lot of really good stuff on the Patheos symposium, maybe the...
View ArticleHonest Scholarship May Not Be Possible at a Christian School
Mickey Maudlin, the capable and well-connected managing editor at HarperOne (think Rob Bell), has an interesting thought in his latest newsletter. He is promoting the latest book by NT Wright, and...
View ArticleAm I Distinguished? (Don’t Answer That)
Yesterday I started teaching two classes at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Never heard of it before? Not surprising. It’s a small, liberal seminary, affiliated with the UCC, the UMC,...
View ArticleA Tale of Three Seminaries
The Twin Cities boasts three Protestant seminaries (forgive me if I don’t consider John Piper’s unaccredited school a seminary in full standing). They are Luther Seminary, United Theological Seminary...
View ArticleAnother Seminary Hits the Skids, Firing Eight Professors
The crest of General Theological Seminary in New York City.I’ve been beating the drum that seminaries across the land are in a time of crisis. Here are some examples:Obituary for the Residential...
View ArticleNew Feminist Christianity [Book Week]
This fall I’m teaching Introduction to Theology at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Over the past decade, I’ve taught about a dozen different courses at half-a-dozen different schools....
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