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12/16/2009

Interesting article by Greg Jones of Duke Divinity School on how theological higher education is chaning in terms of the "kind" of degrees pastors need. Changing times?

http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=8054

11/19/2009

Calvin Symposium on Worship
January 28-30, 2010

Link: http://www.calvin.edu/worship/sympos/2010/

11/03/2009

Here's a great article on Christian vocation by Elizabeth Newman. We should all read and meditate on this article.

http://www.baylor.edu/christianethics/VocationarticleNewman.pdf

10/22/2009

Check out this video series with Miroslav Volf, Yale Divinity School theologian. Volf's work has centered on Christian identity, community (i.e., the church), and discipleship of Christ as a life of reconciliation. Very good stuff!

http://publicchristianity.org/Volf.html #

10/21/2009

Here's a bibliography on "essential" books for preaching that some of you might find interesting.

http://cruciality.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/essential-books-on-preaching/

Anna Carter Florence, over at The Christian Century, recently listed her 7 essential books for preaching. Her suggestions?

10/02/2009

Don't forget! The deadline for Jubille Fellow applications is Wednesday, October 7. See the following link for more information.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/congregational-studies/jubilee-fellows/program-overview.html

The Jubilee Fellows program combines classroom learning and discussion with mentoring and hands-on ministry experience to help you explore your call to Christian ministry.

10/01/2009

Very interesting post on ordination and denying one's baptism from the blog "Faith and Theology."
http://faith-theology.blogspot.com/2009/10/on-baptism-and-ordination.html

My ecclesiology class this morning is discussing "Baptism and Vocation". Here's one of the points from my lecture:Since baptism is itself vocation to discipleship, ordination — or preparation for ordination — can often become a denial of baptism.

09/30/2009

Check out this blog, "Theology Forum," and the entry, "Rown Williams and the 'Accessibility' of the Church." Any thoughts? While you're at it, there's an interesting entry on Martin Luther as "spiritual adviser."
http://theologyforum.wordpress.com/

I am taking a look at Dennis Ngien’s volume, Luther as Spiritual Adviser: The Interface of Theology and Piety in Luther’s Devotional Writings (Paternoster, 2007). Ngien focuses on Luther’s ...

09/25/2009

Great discussion about religion and politics by way of the significance of Reinhold Niebuhr's legacy and American political life. I'd be curious to know what folks think.

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/obamas-theologian/

President Barack Obama has cited the great public theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's teachings as significant in shaping his own ideas about politics and governance. In a public conversation with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist E.J. ...

09/25/2009

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2009/obamas-theologian/

President Barack Obama has cited the great public theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's teachings as significant in shaping his own ideas about politics and governance. In a public conversation with New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist E.J. ...

09/21/2009

Rev. Dr. Samnuel Wells will lecture at Hope College in "The World Christian Lectures Series." The title of Dr. Wells' lecture is "Not Even in Israel Have I Found such Faith." The date is Friday, September 25, at 7:30pm. Check out the link to the event!

http://grow.hope.edu/Promotions/WCLS_F09.html

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09/17/2009

Check out "divine flue"!
http://faith-theology.blogspot.com/

by Kim Fabricius (originally printed in this month's Reform magazine)This is an ecclesiastical health warning for “divine flu”. There are two potentially fatal forms of this malady afflicting the church. ...