David Wayne (AKA Jollyblogger), with whom I once was delighted to have lunch at Westminster, has announced that he is going to be meeting face-to-face with prominent Emerging Church blogger Stephen Shields for conversation. Three cheers for both of them as they set out to prove naysayers who maintain there is no use for such [...]

It is now going on two weeks since the Emerging Church Forum sponsored by the Student Association of Westminster Theological Seminary. One of our hopes in putting on that conference was to stimulate thinking and dialog not only between Reformed seminarians and emerging church folk but also within each of those two circles. It was [...]

The second Sunday of November is designated by many churches as the “International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Persecuted Church.” Tonight I will be attending a prayer meeting for our persecuted brothers and sisters across the globe at Maple Glen Church near our home. More information on the persecuted church can be found [...]

Drew Parlee, a recent Westminster Theological Seminary graduate whi is now teaching seminary in Serbia has seven students who cannot afford Greek New Testaments of their own. If you have a spare you are no longer using and can get it to me soon, I will make sure it gets to his students.
Thanks!

Rev. Richard “Rick” Phillips has posted his reactions to the recording of Scot McKnight’s address to last week’s Forum on the Emerging Church held by Westminster Theological Seminary’s Student Association. He walks through the talk point-by-point offering his comments along the way. I was pleased to see Rev. Phillips take McKnight’s points seriously. He sees [...]

I know that around my seminary Barth is nearly a four-letter word, but this quote I ran across tonight deserves to be heard:
“…I now believe that the church is not here to speak to the world. We preachers do not have as our task to provide the world with some reason for living or some [...]

“But one of the glories of education is the opportunity to hear the truth come out of a human being with blood in the veins and air in the lungs, and not just off a printed page” (Douglas Wilson, The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 198).
When I first saw that quotation, the person who [...]

For me, one of the marks of a good course, conference, or event is its spawning of continued conversation after it’s over. I consider it the best of all possible (seminary) worlds when I have an especially meaningful class right before the lunch break as I can usually count on finding some classmates eager [...]

Rev. Ben Inman, RUF Campus Minister at UNC Chapel Hill, has posted the text of the address he gave last Saturday at Westminster Theological Seminary for the Student Association Forum on the Emerging Church. The talk is titled “The Confession, Culture, and Mission: Why the Westminster Confession is a message that is missionally efficient and [...]

My friend and classmate (and organizer of the recent Emerging Church Forum at Westminster), Tony Stiff, has now made available the PowerPoint from his Thursday night breakout session at the Forum. His presentation is a whirlwind tour of how the more visible portion of the Emerging Church presents itself, it’s public face if you will. [...]