Kevin T. Bauder What training do pastors need? It depends entirely upon the ministry that they intend to pursue. Becoming a social justice warrior takes… Read More »It’s Not a Cadillac! Part Four: Where Should We Learn?
Kevin T. Bauder As General Motors’ top line, Cadillac has become a metaphor for the best and most luxurious of something. A Cadillac is never… Read More »It’s Not a Cadillac! Part Three: What Do We Need?
Kevin T. Bauder The Religious News Service recently published a story stating that future pastors are turning away from the traditional M.Div. and toward the… Read More »It’s Not a Cadillac! Part Two: What Are We Doing?
Kevin T. Bauder The Association of Theological Schools, the primary agency that accredits seminaries, recently produced a study showing that the number of M.Div. students… Read More »It’s Not a Cadillac! Part One: A Bit of History
Jeff Straub One of the real delights of working at the seminary is the opportunity to hear the visiting chapel speakers. Our students get the… Read More »Lessons from a Visiting Missionary
Brett Williams In my last article, I discussed the future of seminary education in relationship to consumer-driven academia and consumer-craving ecclesiology. It seems as though… Read More »The Future of Seminary Education, Part II
Good teachers will revise their notes every time they teach the same class. They’re always reading new books, attending seminars, hearing lectures, listening to papers,… Read More »I’m Changing the Way I Teach Eschatology
In June of 1979 my wife and I left Cambridge, Iowa for seminary in Denver, Colorado. We were towing a fully-loaded twelve-foot U-Haul trailer with… Read More »What Seminary Gave Me
This has been the final week before the beginning of the fall semester at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. Our faculty has spent most of the… Read More »Retrospective
In a recent blog post, Pastor Travis Smith attributed the closing of Clearwater Christian College largely to a change in its position and standards. I… Read More »Change or Die
Spurgeon. Pillsbury. Atlantic. Calvary. Northland. Now Tennessee Temple. These are all names of fundamentalist educational institutions that have closed their doors (through dissolution, merger, or… Read More »Another One Bites the Dust
In May and July, the Lord gave me the opportunity to travel overseas to teach church history in three different countries. Two of the countries… Read More »Reflections on Summer Teaching
The standard for ministry training used to involve a liberal education at the undergraduate level, followed by a three-year ministry degree (in those days it… Read More »Preparation for Seminary
Pastors need to be trained in and by churches. The local church is the center of God’s work during this age. It is the focus… Read More »Church or Seminary?