Here is Deepa Bharath at the Associated Press: Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical school in Pasadena, California, is deliberating whether to become more open to LGBTQ+ students who previously faced possible expulsion if found to be in a same-sex union. […]
seminaries
Ben Sasse: “Harvard, Princeton, and Yale were originally founded as seminaries. They are seminaries once again.”
While I probably wouldn’t call early Harvard, Princeton, and Yale “seminaries,” I take Ben Sasse‘s point. As some of you recall, Sasse left the United States Senate earlier this year and became president of the University of Florida. Here is […]
Former Southern Baptist seminary president Adam Greenway’s $11k espresso machine was actually only $5,952.67
OK, I feel much better now. 😉 Back in June we called your attention to the drama at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. It appears that president Adam Greenway was a big spender. He spent $1.5 million […]
“The kind of education God’s people need today is too important to be left to academics and other non-ecclesial thinkers”
Over at The Gospel Coalition, Doug Sweeney, the Dean of Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama, let’s it rip: Our churches need pastors who will lead theologically. “For though by this time [our laypeople] ought to be teachers, [they] need […]
Iliff School of Theology and a book bound with the skin of a murdered Lenape man
I was unaware of this story until I ran across Carol McKinley’s reporting today at The Denver Gazette. I’ll let her explain: Nearly a half-century ago, a patch of human skin, stretched and tanned like an animal hide, was hand-carried to […]
Adam Greenway resigns as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
He replaced the morally compromised Paige Patterson. Now he is out. Here is Mark Wingfield of Baptist News Global: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary confirmed Friday afternoon, Sept. 23, what BNG first reported Thursday evening, Sept. 22: Adam Greenway resigned as […]
More reporting on Gordon-Conwell’s move to Boston
Here is Daniel Silliman at Christianity Today: After years of declining enrollments, budget deficits, and deep faculty and staff cuts, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary has decided to sell its 102-acre main campus in Hamilton, Massachusetts. The historic evangelical seminary plans to […]
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary will sell Hamilton campus and move to Boston
Here is the press release: May 16, (Hamilton, Massachusetts) – In a renewed effort to focus on its roots, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, an evangelical seminary of more than 1,400 global students, announced today its intention to leverage the economic value […]
What is going on at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School?
When I graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1992 with a Masters of Divinity and a Masters of Arts in Church History, the school had 937 full-time equivalent students. That was larger than my undergraduate institution! Today TEDS has […]