by Kevin Bauder | Nov 14, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
Teaching for Central Seminary has changed over the past thirty years. I used to encounter classrooms full of students from Baptist colleges like Northland, Pillsbury, and Maranatha, or from interdenominational schools like Bob Jones University or Clearwater Christian...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 7, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
The campus sweltered in late August of 1973. I was seventeen. Registering for my first semester of college, I needed my faculty advisor’s signature. He was a new prof, somebody I’d never heard of. But even though I was only a lowly freshman, George...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 31, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
Today—the day this essay appears to the public—is October 31, All Hallows’ Eve. Halloween has become the second most popular “holiday” that is celebrated in the United States. We Americans tend to twist every celebration. As Robert Delnay used to...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 24, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
Not everyone who receives In the Nick of Time is on Central Seminary’s email list. Those who are not have probably never heard about all the publications and other resources that we make available online. Since these resources have been released over several...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 17, 2025 | In the Nick of Time
We know God through analogies. We know ourselves through analogies. We know the world through analogies. In each case, what we already know provides some parallel to help us grasp what we do not. But how can we have confidence that these analogies are giving us...
