Joshua JippIf you have a deep love for theological learning, as well as a vocational calling to serve God's...
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If you have a deep love for theological learning, as well as a vocational calling to serve God's...
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What you teach often receives the focus in higher education. But the truth is how you teach is just as critical. How you teach strikes at the heart of the calling to teach. If we want to see genuine education, that is, if we want to see...
The Great Tradition refers to a set of doctrines, theologians, and creeds that have held common consent across the ages. While the phrase the Great Tradition is new, those who use it believe they participate in a tradition that extends back to the...
The task of theology is one of communal dependence. We are not lone wolves, relying solely on our own individual grasp of Scripture. We are joined to a living community that continues to grow together. This community—the church—remains a necessary...
For many university and seminary students, the excitement of a new semester is only overcome by the anxiety of a new semester. Learning is a privilege and a joy, but too often it is experienced as a burden and a judgment.
Riddles were the currency of Israel’s sages—those authors of the book of Proverbs. Because their community looked to them to solve life’s riddles, we should not be surprised to find them responding with riddles of their own. Yet until we learn...
I am often asked a version of the same question. A parent leans in and says, “If my child goes to seminary, will their faith hold up?” It is a fair question. People imagine a classroom where professors dismantle everything they ever believed, and...
According to the latest statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), there are just over three million graduate students in the United States. Nearly 75,000 of these students (2%) are enrolled in a seminary, which is a type...
Homiletics has a rich and dynamic history that starts in the Bible and moves through ancient and modern church history. To better understand it, we will consider its roots, developments, and movements, first in Scripture and then in church history...
A syllabus is like the Ten Commandments: delivered from on high as a rule for life (or at least for one semester). It seems chiseled in stone, yet—at best—is imperfectly followed. More seriously, a syllabus is a foundational document for academic...
I love teaching and I know well why I chose this as my vocation. Yet it can be easy to get caught up in the day-to-day grind. So I find it helpful to regularly revisit why—the telos of teaching. To that end, allow me to provide five bedrock reasons...
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