Posts Tagged ‘For the Church Series’

This post was originally published on 22 April 2013. First Things First: Training Pastors, Teachers & Evangelists for the Church. Harvard University stands as one of America’s truly elite universities. Founded in 1636, Harvard is America’s oldest institution of higher learning, and also its most storied. Boasting a corpus of more than $32 billion, it Read more

This post was originally published on 15 April 2013. Southern Baptist: By Conviction, by Culture, by Determination. Midwestern Seminary’s vision is simple, yet full: she exists for the Church. This purpose both defines our institutional to-be list, and it drives our institutional to-do list. To exist for the Church, however, does not quite tell the Read more

Since Southern Baptists founded their first seminary in 1859, the denomination has experienced an uneasy relationship between her seminaries and the churches that own them. Though the year 2013 finds the seminaries very much in line with the denomination’s confessional statement—the Baptist Faith & Message 2000—such has not always been the case. Moreover, a survey of the history of theological education indicates the need for churches to keep an ever-vigilant eye on the seminaries they own. Read more

*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