By Bob Allen A 16-member advisory team is meeting Aug. 29-30 in Nashville, Tenn., to help the president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee draft a strategic plan to bridge a growing divide over Calvinism in the nation’s second-largest…
How to read the New Testament
I have recently put the finishing touches on my syllabus, lectures, discussions, and assignments for my introduction to the New Testament class I will be teaching this semester. Classes start for me this week and I will be beginning a…
Violence and the cross
Challenging the notion that some violent responses to violence are justified often seems to cause people to respond with greater vehemence than if their most deeply-cherished convictions about the nature of God had been questioned. I suspect there are two…
Concerns voiced about new curriculum
By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist college president says new curriculum by LifeWay Christian Resources is biased toward a theological viewpoint not “representative of the vast majority of Southern Baptists.” Emir Caner, president of Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga., wrote…
Praying with monks
By Molly T. Marshall Twenty years ago few Baptist seminaries used the language of “spiritual formation” or “spirituality.” That was thought to be a Roman Catholic term, and while Baptists used terms like “discipleship” or “piety,” we had yet to…
Praying with monks
By Molly T. Marshall Twenty years ago few Baptist seminaries used the language of “spiritual formation” or “spirituality.” That was thought to be a Roman Catholic term, and while Baptists used terms like “discipleship” or “piety,” we had yet to…
Praying with monks
By Molly T. Marshall Twenty years ago few Baptist seminaries used the language of “spiritual formation” or “spirituality.” That was thought to be a Roman Catholic term, and while Baptists used terms like “discipleship” or “piety,” we had yet to…
Humility: A key to postmodern faith?
By Kate Hanch I never expected to land on humility as an emphasis of study in postgraduate work, but it makes sense. Ever since God called me to vocational ministry, I’ve been interested in the intersection of faith, academics and…
A new year in theological education
By David Gushee Tonight I enter a classroom at McAfee School of Theology where 80 students will gather for the introductory course in Christian ethics. Fully one-third of our students will be in this one class. I have been thinking…