Archive for June, 2014

*This post was originally published on 1 April 2013. No Man Can Serve Two Masters: Trustee Oversight, Financial Influence & a Seminary’s Resolve. No man can serve two masters. This is true, and never truer than in theological education. Individuals and groups compete for institutional influence, adding their voice and, if permitted, interjecting their hand, Read more

*This post was originally published on 22 March 2013. In Arthur Schlesinger’s award-winning biography of Franklin Roosevelt, he famously labeled the economic and political malaise of the 1920s and ’30s as “the crisis of the old order.” Schlesinger argued that political, cultural and economic norms were changing so rapidly that, coupled with government inaction, they Read more

It is an honor to bring the Midwestern Seminary report to the messengers of this convention, and it is a joy to be positioned to bring such a positive one. As I do, I am mindful this is the time of year for conventions. As denominations across American convene this summer, they are hearing their Read more