by Kevin Bauder | Sep 8, 2017 | Vocation
Daniel Darling of the Ethics and Religions Liberty Commission argues that blue collar jobs need to be seen as legitimate vocations. He’s right. Previous generations held up the trades—plumbers, electricians, line workers, factory foremen, and retail managers—as...
by Jeff Straub | Aug 8, 2017 | Vocation
In the new issue of Themelios, Don Carson offers some of the best counsel on ministerial retirement I have read. I think all ministry types ought to read this and keep it for a later date when we actually begin to ask this question. Now that I have reached my 6th...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 17, 2017 | Baptists, Conservatism, Culture, Ecclesiology, Vocation, Work
African theologian David DeBruyn offers a clear and important biblical reason to reject populist objections to special knowledge. God has so made the world and limited man that we each need to specialise in some domain of human life. We need some to give themselves to...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 11, 2016 | Devotion, Vocation
While he never attended Central Seminary, Ralph Turk pastored in Minnesota and was for a while part of the Central Seminary environment. He was also one of the professors, and briefly dean, at the seminary I attended. One of the most memorable courses I ever took was...
