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Seminaries: A New Dimension for a Three-Dimensional World

by Brett Williams | Jan 15, 2019 | Central Blog, Culture, Education, Seminaries

In recent blog posts, Ben Edwards from Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary weighed in on a post by Dan Wallace decrying the contemporary push towards online seminary training. Both Edwards and Wallace correctly warn prospective ministerial students away from the...

Two-Dimensional Preparation for a Three-Dimensional World

by Brett Williams | Dec 18, 2018 | Central Blog, Education, Seminaries

Dan Wallace discusses the pros and cons of online ministerial training. Online Divinity Degrees: Two-Dimensional Preparation for a Three-Dimensional World The bottom-line question that the prospective student needs to ask is not, “What’s the easiest route to take to...
It’s Not a Cadillac! Part Four: Where Should We Learn?

It’s Not a Cadillac! Part Four: Where Should We Learn?

by Kevin Bauder | Jun 8, 2018 | Education, In the Nick of Time, Pastoral Theology

What training do pastors need? It depends entirely upon the ministry that they intend to pursue. Becoming a social justice warrior takes one kind of training. Becoming an ecclesiastical impresario takes another. Learning to work a crowd for high-pressure evangelism...
It’s Not a Cadillac! Part Four: Where Should We Learn?

A Fundamentalist’s Education

by Kevin Bauder | Jan 19, 2018 | Education, Fundamentalism, In the Nick of Time

Word has come that Donald K. Campbell passed away last Sunday, January 14. Campbell was the third president of Dallas Theological Seminary, following John Walvoord and preceding Chuck Swindoll. He was still the president when I moved to Dallas to work on a Ph.D. in...

Why Did I Get a B?

by Kevin Bauder | Sep 6, 2017 | Education, Humor

Writing for McSweeney’s, Shannon Reed offers four fables in answer to a question that every professor hears.

Why Preachers Need to Be Trained

by Kevin Bauder | Sep 5, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Education, Uncategorized

Preachers need to be well trained and able to speak clearly. They need to be able to rightly divide and apply the word of truth. They need to be able to study. There will always be the occasional Charles Spurgeon or Martyn Lloyd-Jones, who, with little or no formal...
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