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Editorial – Education Edition
By Calvin Brown – The Presbyterian approach to education has led to the creation of the worldview that now governs civilization. The danger of glorying in education, however, is that like all creations it can easily be changed from a gift of God to a form of idolatry. … Read more
College Leaders Respond to Some Questions
The questions are about the most important thing that graduates will take away with them, how colleges are addressing the matter of the church in decline, assumptions about the level of Christian formation that entering students have, the biggest challenge facing the colleges, and new initiatives at the colleges. … Read more
The Discipleship Project
By Doug Schonberg and David Moody. The Discipleship Project is a tool for stimulating, promoting and measuring adult spiritual education, based on the assumption that even a 10% increase in serious, intentional adult spiritual growth can offset operating deficits and increase volunteerism for children and youth ministries. … Read more
The Elders’ Institute
By Mary Rogers. The Elders' Institute was founded to provoke Canadian Presbyterian elders and other leaders to lead the church into more faithful, effective, and wise ministry and mission, using both online distance education and face-to-face "On the Road" events. … Read more
52. Fall 1999
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Editorial: Evangelical Theological Education
By Calvin Brown. Evangelicals in our church have for too long been beating their chests with recriminations for our failures and non-evangelicals have been using the evangelicals in our church as "whipping boys" who were blamed for holding back progress. … Read more
Letter of Resignation
By John Vissers. Knox Church has been praying for decades that God would renew our theological colleges. Dr. Vissers' appointment as Principal signals the first time that a conservative evangelical minister has led one of our colleges since the early part of this century. … Read more
A Fishy Story? Can we be Evangelical and Presbyterian and Study for the Ministry?
By Jackson Clelland. Theological students who are both evangelical and Presbyterian would like to take courses in evangelism, prayer, and missions, but they are not offered at our colleges. They have the option of attending a college other than the PCC approved schools. … Read more
An Evangelical Perspective on Some Issues Facing Theological Colleges Today
By J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. In trying to be faithful today, many theological colleges are more concerned about the cross-cultural, anti-Judaistic, or feminist dimensions of their work, than about the evangelical and classical expressions of the Christian faith. … Read more
Which Way to the Oasis? – Reflections on Learning in Community
By David D. Stewart. It has taken me most of my adult life to come to the point of recognizing a bit of what was wrapped up in the words across the great arch high above the pulpit in Knox Church, Toronto, in my childhood: "Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." … Read more
A Unique Opportunity
Sylvia Cleland outlines her progress to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament, and reflects on her education at both Regent College and Vancouver School of Theology. … Read more
The Seminary as a Place of Spiritual Foundation
By Eugene H. Peterson. The French have a wonderful phrase, deformation professionale, work-related malady. Those of us who think and talk and read and write God are in danger of having the very words we use about God separate us from God, the most damning deformation of all. … Read more
The Beam in Our Eye
By Paul A. Myers. The mandate of seminaries has never been easy. We no longer live in those serene times when both the church and its ministers inherited respect and sympathy. So, we now have the formidable task to articulate more clearly than ever the reason for our hope. … Read more
Theological Education and The Renewal of Anglicanism
By Alister McGrath. The seminaries have a vital role to play in the future of Christianity – not by mimicking the values and attitudes of secular academia, but by fostering a quiet confidence in the intellectual, spiritual, and moral relevance of the Christian faith to communities and individuals in the modem world. … Read more
Bridlewood Spiritually Gifted
By Bruce Heal. A most exciting and spiritually encouraging class was taught by our pastor Dan MacKinnon on spiritual gifts, making use of the material in Chuck Congram’s course, Understanding and Using Spiritual Gifts, and Peter Wagner’s book, Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help your Church Grow. … Read more
Can Spiritual Maturity Be Taught?
By Roberta Hestenes. Who leads the church in developing spiritual maturity? Presumably the pastor. And where does the pastor learn it? The churches figured it was taught at seminary; the seminaries assumed it was caught at church. … Read more