Jeff Fuller of the Reformed Evangelist blog knew he possessed two things anyone in ministry would love to have at the same time: seekers hungry for the Gospel and many people willing to help get it to them. All he had to do was find a way to bring those two together. In Jeff’s case, [...]

 
Our daughter Sarah and her husband are both VT grads; in fact, they met there. Karyn and I taught a number of students in Charlottesville who are now VT students.
 
Today we are all Hokies.

“I think if you let the match burn right down to your fingertips you get a better flame.” “Maybe your tobacco is too dry. Try adding some beer!” “Have you thought of giving up pipe smoking? Maybe you’d be more successful at something simpler, like nuclear physics.”
Our advice flowed as freely as Yuengling from a [...]

One of my favorite WTS-alumni authors, Mark Strom, will be visiting the Westminster Theological Seminary campus tomorrow, February 22. Professor Doug Green has set up an informal talk/lecture by Strom at 4 p.m. in room 2 of Van Til Hall. If there is interest among the participants, a more informal “hang out” time with Dr. [...]

The Student Missions Fellowship will sponsor the 2007 Missions Conference at Westminster Theological Seminary all next week (February 12-16). Theme this year is “Becoming servants of Theology and Training to the Global Church.” Find all details here.

As part of my involvement with the new Conn-versation team blog dedicated to the life and legacy of missional visionary Harvie Conn, I have been completing my reading of his magnum opus, Eternal Word and Changing Worlds: Anthropology, Theology, and Missions in Trialogue. The final two chapters, on theologizing and theological education from a missional [...]

Scot McKnight (blog) has adapted his introduction and overview of the Emerging Church (originally given as the opening address of last October’s Student Forum on the Emerging Church at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia) and published it on Christianity Today Online.

I originally published this article on the Conn-versation team blog (connversation.wordpress.com), but I feel so strongly about its subject matter that I wanted to post it here as well.
Author Edward Gilbreath’s article Exit Interviews over at christianitytoday.com dares to ask the questions whites and blacks involved in minstry together are dying (but afraid) to ask [...]

Sacred Journey has been peacefully slumbering for the past couple of weeks. I’m decompressing after final exams and a month of way-too-much drama at Westminster Theological Seminary. This is also the time of year when I like to re-evaluate the purpose and future direction of this blog, so I’m spending some time giving that some [...]

David Wayne, the Jollyblogger, takes us back to one of the Presbyterian Church in America’s foundational documents, demonstrating that the PCA was purposely missional before missional was a word.