Kevin Roose, author of The Unlikely Disciple, an account of Roose’s time as a secret skeptic enrolled at Liberty, also argued in New York Magazine that Liberty has backed away from vocal opposition to gay marriage, especially as it has emphasized campus and online growth. Even though the school’s behavioral code still bans homosexual acts,... Continue Reading

One of the goals of the GRN is to clarify the nature of the sanctification as it has been taught, written about, and addressed over the last couple of decades.  One member of the organizing committee noted, “We want to deal with the issue pastorally, exegetically, and theologically, not polemically; this is a time to... Continue Reading

“The WEA Panel (hereafter referred to as ‘Panel’) recommends that when the words for ‘father’ and ‘son’ refer to God the Father and to the Son of God, these words always be translated with the most directly equivalent familial words within the given linguistic and cultural context of the recipients,” the report says. After a... Continue Reading

Dr. Dalbey, who has served as interim president of the Seminary since June 2012, will become the fifth president to lead the institution. He has taken on several roles at Covenant since 1999, when he was named dean of students. A few years later, he became vice president of student development and assistant professor of... Continue Reading

There are various other problems with the confession: vague generalizations, undefined terms, simplistic proof-texting, questionable assertions and the like.  These alone would prevent me from signing the confession. But throwing all churches under the evolutionary-secular-unbiblical bus for practicing age-segregation goes too far. Whatever a church or Christian believes about the FIC movement as a positive... Continue Reading

“It’s called BEING the church!” The more we do to revitalize it, the more flaccid it often becomes. Many church observers would probably agree that some (but not all) of our most widely-touted “fixes” and innovations for the church failed to do much, cost a lot of money, and caused discord among many traditionalists—that’s probably... Continue Reading

The institute is conceived as a forum to promote research into the Reformation and post-Reformation periods, covering the 16th to the 18th centuries, through the use of digital tools, skills, and resources. The Junius Institute will house the Post-Reformation Digital Library, an electronic database covering thousands of authors and primary source documents on the development... Continue Reading

Recent news that the university will not tenure a popular professor in their school of theology has solicited both an outpouring of support for the professor and swirling accusations about the university. For most Kentucky Baptists, a personnel matter at one of our nine agencies or institutions is a matter that should be handled privately... Continue Reading

The meal was the first time Rev. Brummel had the opportunity to eat with his theological students. Even though they are served the same food, he usually must eat in a different location. Not only was it unusual for him to dine with his students, but it also provided the rare sight of a warden... Continue Reading

It seems odd that young bright scholars trained in Southern Baptist seminaries are no longer welcome in Southern Baptist denominational colleges and universities. Thoughtful conservative professors are under attack from both the “freethinking” academics, who only value a certain type of academic freedom, and the anti-intellectual fundamentalists, who seem to distrust all thinking. It is... Continue Reading